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 Famed Holocaust Orphan Is Now A Loving Bubbe — With Many Ghosts
Ruth Saperstein Jaffe, of Sleepy Hollow, New York, was once Bela Raphael, an orphan of the Holocaust who brought hope to the world in the aftermath of the war. Brought to New York by a Jewish G.I. who pledged to raise a child orphaned by Hitler’s killing machine, Jaffe’s largely forgotten story is retold in…
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Yiddish World Grigory Kanovich’s Remarkable Love Song For a Lithuanian Shtetl
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Thanks to the hard work of his literary admirers, an English translation of Grigory Kanovich’s autobiographical novel “Shtetl Love Song” has finally appeared. The novel was released by a boutique British publishing house, Noir Press, that specializes in modern Lithuanian literature. It’s remarkable that one of the…
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Fast Forward Without Mentioning Trump, Obama Cites Hitler In Talk On Nationalism
At a recent talk, former President Barack Obama warned U.S. citizens not to “grow complacent,” citing the rise of Adolph Hitler in Germany’s culturally progressive Weimar Republic, Crain’s reported. The remarks came during a Q&A session at a meeting of the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday. “We have to tend to this garden of…
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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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