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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Community This Holocaust Remembrance Day, Will Trump Remember The Jews?
Dear President Trump, This year, will you remember the Jews? Last year, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a newly inaugurated President Trump spoke vaguely of “victims, survivors [and] heroes,” of “the darkest hours” and “the powers of good.” For reasons difficult to divine, his statement didn’t mention the Jewish people. In a world where Jews…
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Israel News Holocaust Survivors Debate: Is It Okay To Compare African Migrants To Jews Under Nazis?
As the battle wages over the intention of Israel’s government to expel thousands of African migrants who entered the country through its southern border, Holocaust survivors are speaking up against the move and, at times, are being criticized for doing so. Do survivors of the Jewish genocide who had faced the struggle of seeking asylum…
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Community Forward Readers Share Their Family Holocaust Survival Stories
Hilda and Harry Eisen 1917-2017 1917-2012 Izbica Kujawska, Poland to Beverly Hills, California “Harry and Hilda Eisen were both born in 1917, in the Polish village of Izbica-Kujawska. They grew up together. After they returned from the horrors of the war—Harry from Auschwitz and other concentration camps, and Hilda from the Parczew forest Partisans —…
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Community Hitler’s Secret Weapon Was Silence
Silence is complicity. Hearing those words recently, it felt like an echo from a time long ago and far away. A time when people were afraid to speak up, afraid to rock the boat, afraid to be singled out. Eighty years ago, as we recall today on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Europe was in the…
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Fast Forward What Role Did Finland Play In The Holocaust?
(JTA) — Finland will investigate evidence suggesting that soldiers of its army were involved in killing Jews during the Holocaust, the office of Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said. The announcement about the initiation of the probe, the first of its kind in Finland, came Wednesday in a letter to Efraim Zuroff, a hunter of Nazis for…
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Fast Forward Major Hungarian Pol Will Honor Nazi Collaborator On International Holocaust Day
(JTA) — Churchgoers in Budapest said a senior lawmaker will attend a ceremony honoring the Nazi collaborator Miklos Horthy that they are organizing on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The KESZ group, a Christian organization, said this in an invitation for the Jan. 27 event at Budapest’s Main Parish Church of the Assumption, noting it will…
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Community All Of Europe Was Complicit In The Holocaust
In the build-up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, 2018, people will line up to say that we must never forget. But the world has long forgotten. In fact, the world never really remembered. Denial is not peripheral; it is rife. There is firstly outright denial, the received wisdom in many parts of…
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News Did The Nazis Make Jews Wear Shoes With Torah Insoles? A Trump Official Says So.
Updated 6:00 p.m Anti-abortion activists often compare abortion to the Holocaust, claiming aborted fetuses are like Jews murdered by the Nazis. Jewish groups denounce these analogies regularly. Now, a Trump administration official has gone further, bringing footwear into the discussion. The occasion was the launch of the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division at the Department…
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