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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Fast Forward Senate Committee Advances Restitution Bill For Holocaust Survivors
(JTA) — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee advanced a bill that will help Holocaust survivors and the families of victims obtain restitution or the return of Holocaust-era assets. On Tuesday, the committee unanimously passed the Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today, or JUST Act. The legislation requires the State Department to report on the progress of…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Survivor Diary Shows How Hope For Revenge Kept Him Going
A Greek Holocaust survivor’s diary of his time in Auschwitz was only recently translated — and it shows how revenge kept him alive after he lost hope, the New York Post reported. Marcel Nadjari stuffed his account of life in the concentration camp into a thermos and buried it in 1944. Though the manuscript was…
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Fast Forward Texas Prisoners Can’t Read ‘Freakonomics’ – But ‘Mein Kampf’ Is Allowed
You can’t read Shakespeare’s sonnets. You can read Hitler’s memoir. You can’t read Alice Walker’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel “The Color Purple.” You can read former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke’s “My Awakening.” These are some of the strange discrepancies in the official reading list from which inmates in Texas prisons can request books, the Dallas…
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Fast Forward American Yeshiva Student Sentenced For Scratching Name On Auschwitz Barracks
(JTA) — A Polish court gave a suspended one-year sentence to an American teenager for scratching his name on a barracks wall at Auschwitz. Polish police arrested the yeshiva student, 17, in July after he was caught by a guide while etching his name into the interior wall, according to reports. The teen also was…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorial In Athens Vandalized
(JTA) — Vandals stripped away inscriptions on the Holocaust Memorial in Athens, which commemorates the more than 60,000 Greek Jews killed during World War II. The attack on the memorial occurred on Saturday, according to the English-language Greek Reporter. Inscriptions engraved on a plaque written by famous Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel especially for…
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Fast Forward Naked Tag Video At Nazi Gas Chamber Leads To Polish Investigation
(JTA) — Poland’s interior minister has instructed prosecutors to follow up on an investigation by groups representing Holocaust survivors on a video featuring nudity that was filmed at a former death camp in the country. The video shows several naked men and women playing a game of tag inside what its creators said was a…
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Fast Forward Man Stole Part Of A Holocaust Memorial To Give To Friend As A Gift
A man stole part of a beloved Holocaust memorial from a cemetery to give it to his friend as a gift, the Patriot Ledger reported. Police announced Thursday that they are hoping to charge a man from Milton, an affluent suburb of Boston, with the theft. The stolen part of the memorial — two hands…
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Fast Forward London Judaica Shop Shaken After Caller Says ‘Hitler Had The Best Ovens’
A Hasidic-owned Judaica shop in London received a one-line phone call Thursday evening. A man said, “Hitler had the best ovens,” and immediately hung up. The staff member who answered the call said he was “disgusted, shocked and frightened by this unexpected call, especially when my grandparents and most members of my family perished in…
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