This is the Forward’s coverage of the Holocaust (also called the Shoah), the genocide of Europe’s Jews committed by the Nazis during World War II.
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Community This Cartoon Poignantly Illustrates How We Experience Inherited Trauma
“Science aside, no one needs to prove to me the provenance of passed down suffering.” See more of the self-loving Jew on his website.
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Fast Forward Dutch Holocaust Survivor Told To Pay Taxes On Child Slave Labor Pension
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch tax authority is seeking payment from an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor for a pension stipend that she is receiving from Germany for her employment as a child in forced labor. The Tax and Customs Administration demanded in summer that Inge Prenzlau pay a portion of her $156 monthly compensation stipend from…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Reparations At Risk After Lithuanian Court Voids Election Results
(JTA) — In an unusual move, a Lithuanian court voided the local Jewish community’s April internal elections, declaring that communal bosses have no legal authority to continue their rule. The Dec. 21 ruling by Vilnius District Court, which is the first of its kind in years in Europe, is the latest development in the fight…
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Fast Forward He Said Berlin Didn’t Need A Shoah Memorial. So They Built One In His Backyard.
Activists have built a model of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial outside the home of far-right German politician Björn Höcke after he said the country shouldn’t have a World War II museum in its capital. At a rally in Dresden in January, Höcke called on Germans to make a “180 degree” turn in the way they viewed…
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Fast Forward Mormons Are Still Posthumously Baptizing Holocaust Victims
Mormons are continuing to posthumously baptize Holocaust victims — despite church rules that are meant to restrict the ceremonies only to a member’s ancestors. This discovery was made by a former Mormon and researcher Helen Radkey and shared with the Associated Press. The church, in a statement to the AP, acknowledged the ceremonies violated its…
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Fast Forward Mormons Said To Break Their Word, Baptize Holocaust Victims, The Rebbe And Celebrities
(JTA) — A researcher says Mormons have posthumously baptized the late Lubavitcher rebbe, the grandparents of Carrie Fisher and Steven Spielberg, and hundreds of Holocaust victims, violating an agreement to halt the practice. Helen Radkey, a Salt Lake City-based independent researcher who has been looking into the Mormon practice of posthumous baptisms for two decades,…
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Opinion The Nazi Who Saved Jews
Karl Rudolf Werner Best was your average run-of-the-mill Nazi, until he wasn’t. A curious footnote to history, Best both ordered and subsequently sabotaged the deportation of Denmark’s Jews, rendering him an enduring mystery. Born in Darmstadt on July 10, 1903, Best was an early and staunch German nationalist who founded the first local group of…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum Re-Publishes Syria Study – This Time With Call For Action
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum released a wide-ranging study on how to mitigate the Syrian civil war on Tuesday, the New York Times reported It was a second attempt for the museum, which released a preliminary version of the study online earlier this fall. That version immediately faced a political backlash, with policy experts and…
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