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 Holocaust Survivor’s New Testimony Leads To Charges For Nazi Guard
Testimony from an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor in Minnesota could help convict an alleged former Nazi concentration camp guard. Judith Meisel testified to German prosecutors and FBI agents who visited Minnesota this summer to take her testimony about her experiences at the Stutthof camp. Meisel is believed to be one of the last living survivors of…
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Fast Forward 102-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Meets The Nephew He Thought Couldn’t Exist
A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor thought everyone in his family died during the war — until he was reunited his nephew last week in Israel. Eliahu Pietruszka fled Poland in 1939. His parents and a brother, Zelig, died in a concentration camp. But Zelig’s twin, Volf, was captured by the Russian army and sent to a…
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Fast Forward German City Cancels Art Exhibit Over Holocaust Restitution Demands
MONTREAL (JTA) — “Anti-restitution bias” is being blamed for the sudden decision by the mayor of Dusseldorf, Germany to cancel a planned exhibit about world-renowned Montreal art dealer Max Stern. Due to open in February after more than three years of planning by Dusseldorf’s Stadtmuseum, the exhibit – titled “Max Stern: from Dusseldorf to Montreal” –…
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Fast Forward US Holocaust Museum Reports ‘Mounting Evidence’ Of Genocide Against Rohingya
The U.S. Holocaust Museum says there is “mounting evidence” of genocide in Myanmar against Rohingya Muslims, the Guardian reported. The Museum’s report follows a year-long investigation done in concert with Fortify Rights, a Southeast Asia rights group. Culled from over 200 interviews with refugees and aid workers, the report details “unprecedented, widespread and systematic” killing…
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Life The Woman Who Rescued Jewish Books From The Vilna Ghetto
Some 75 years ago, a group of Jews under German occupation in Vilna was assigned to assist Nazi authorities in curating books and other cultural items destined for shipment to Germany. There, the selection of Judaica materials was to be conserved as a collection of artifacts from an extinct people. Some items were indeed shipped…
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Fast Forward Karl Lagerfeld Cites Holocaust To Slam Germany Bringing In Muslim Refugees
(JTA) — Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld criticized Germany for welcoming Muslim refugees, saying the country should not take in the Jews’ “worst enemies” given its responsibility for the Holocaust. Lagerfeld, 80, the chief designer at the Chanel fashion house, made the comments Saturday on a French television talk show. “One cannot – even if there…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Celebrate Bar Mitzvahs 70 Years Later — At Western Wall
More than 40 Holocaust survivors who were never able to celebrate their bar or bat mitzvahs finally did so last week — at the Western Wall. The event, coordinated by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and Israel’s Office for Social Equality, was welcomed by participants who never got…
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Fast Forward High Schoolers Simulate Nazi Human Experiments For Science Fair
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Brazilian high school students simulated medical experiments that the Nazis conducted on concentration camp prisoners during the Holocaust. The students at Milecimo da Silva high school in Rio De Janeiro were recently assigned to re-create a Nazi laboratory for a science fair. According to the Brazilian Israelite Confederations, the country’s umbrella Jewish…
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