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 Landowner Wants Polish Town To Remove Monument To Murdered Jews
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A monument commemorating Jews murdered in a small town in southern Poland during World War II may be removed. The owner of the land on which the memorial is standing has asked the local government of Chrzanow to remove the monument. It is believed that he wants to sell or lease…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Donates $1 Million To Veterans Charities
An 83-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor is giving $1 million in honor of the troops who liberated France in 1944. Bernard Darty was seven years old when French police arrested his mother and sent her to Auschwitz, Darty wrote in a Fox News column. He hid in the outskirts of Paris until American troops liberated France…
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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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