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 For Super Bowl, Minneapolis Airport Will Display Stories Of Holocaust Survivors
A traveling exhibition of stories of Holocaust survivors will be shown in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport in Minnesota for the duration of this year’s two-week-long Super Bowl festivities, the Star Tribune reported. The big game, hosted at the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, is expected to draw over a million people to the city. “Transfer…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Guard, Now 96, Denied Clemency For Role In Murder Of Hungarian Jews
(JTA) — A plea for clemency filed by a 96-year-old former Auschwitz guard ordered by Germany’s highest court to serve his prison sentence for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews has been denied. “The clemency request has been denied,” Wiebke Bethke, a spokeswoman for the prosecutors’ office in Lüneburg told news agency epd. Groening…
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Fast Forward Austrian Jews To Boycott Holocaust Ceremony If Far-Right Ministers Attend
A Jewish leader in Austria said community officials would not attend the nation’s official Holocaust commemoration ceremony if lawmakers from the far-right Freedom Party are present. “If there will be ministers there for the Freedom Party, and I’m sure there will be, I will not be able to shake their hands, so the Jewish community…
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News When Muslim Albanians Risked Everything To Save Jews From The Holocaust?
TIRANA, Albania (JTA) — Most anywhere else in Nazi-occupied Europe, an encounter with police would have likely sealed the fate of Jewish refugees like Nissim and Sarah Aladjem and their 10-year-old son, Aron. Instead, when the family was detained by police in the Muslim nation of Albania 75 years ago, it was the key to…
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Fast Forward 96-Year-Old ‘Bookkeeper Of Auschwitz’ Pleads For Clemency After Conviction
BERLIN (Reuters) – A 96-year-old German convicted over his role in the murders of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland has filed a plea for clemency, a regional justice spokesman said on Monday. Oskar Groening, known as the “bookkeeper of Auschwitz,” was sentenced to four years in prison in 2015 for…
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Fast Forward Commuters On London’s Tube Speak With Famous British Holocaust Survivor
Morning commuters in London got the chance to speak with the Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert and learn about her life story, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Lily Ebert, 87, survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. She sat with commuters on two sofas in the middle of the Liverpool Street Station for the Hear My Story initiative, from…
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Fast Forward Blogger On Trial For Holocaust-Denying YouTube Videos Sings Along In Court
(JTA) — A British blogger who posted songs on YouTube denying the Holocaust and mocking survivors is on trial. British media reported Wednesday that Alison Chabloz has been charged with “sending obscene material by public communication.” She appeared to sing along with the three songs in question as they were played in a London court…
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Fast Forward German Migrants Must Visit Nazi Camps To Stop Anti-Semitism: Jewish Council
BERLIN (Reuters) – New migrants to Germany must visit Nazi concentration camp memorials to help tackle a perceived rise in anti-Semitism, Germany’s Central Council of Jews said on Wednesday, supporting a proposal by a Palestinian-German politician. Anti-Semitism remains a sensitive issue in Germany more than 70 years after the end of the Nazi-era Holocaust, in…
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