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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Life Apparently, Gymboree Thought Holocaust Fashion Was Appropriate For Toddlers
Yesterday, the Jerusalem Post reported that children’s clothing purveyor, Gymboree, was selling a dress with a Jewish star patch on its online site. The patch, which according to the product description was meant to depict a snowflake, has six points which is eerily similar to the Jewish star. The blue-and-white plaid dress is vaguely reminiscent…
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Fast Forward Last-Ditch Effort To Interview Polish Righteous Gentiles
(JTA) — Holocaust-commemoration activists in Poland launched with British government funding a last-ditch effort to interview witnesses to attempts to rescue Jews during from the genocide. The campaign, titled “Silent Heroes,” was announced Thursday at a news conference in Warsaw that was organized by the From the Depths organization and attended by the United Kingdom’s…
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Fast Forward Italian Soccer Fans Try To Drown Out Reading Of Anne Frank’s Diary
As a portion of Anne Frank’s diary was read over the loudspeaker at an Italian soccer match Wednesday night, a number of fans chose to turn their backs to the field and sing the Italian anthem, Deadspin reported. The reading and a moment of silence at the game for S.S. Lazio had been planned to…
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Fast Forward UK’s Holocaust Memorial Will Be Designed By Firm Behind Smithsonian Black History Museum
London’s Holocaust memorial will be designed by David Adjaye, who designed the recently inaugurated National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., the Guardian reported. Adjaye’s firm was picked from a shortlist of ten renowned international firms, including Zaha Hadid Architects and Norman Foster. “[W]e wanted to create a living place, not…
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Fast Forward Roy Moore Used Holocaust Poem To Protest Gay Marriage
Roy Moore, the Republican nominee in Alabama’s Senate race, has long been passionate about his opposition to same-sex marriage — so much so that he used one of the most famous poems from Nazi Germany to claim that those who share his views were being persecuted. “We’re going through something in our country that other…
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Fast Forward Former Nazi Camp Guard Charged As Accessory To Murder
(JTA) — A former guard at the Majdanek Nazi death camp has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder. The Frankfurt resident, 96, whose name has not been released due to the country’s privacy laws, was charged by the city prosecutor on Friday for being an accessory to murder during his service…
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Life I’m A Child Of A Holocaust Survivor. Halloween Horrifies Me.
I hate Halloween, though I’m unlikely to mention it to you in person. Let me explain why. My Dad is a Holocaust survivor. He was born just as the war was ending, and he spent the first several years of his life in a rat infested refugee camp in Austria. His parents had spent the…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Chinese Blogger Weeps In Meeting With Holocaust Survivor
An influential Chinese blogger wept as he met with Holocaust survivor and author Solomon Perel, Ynet News reported. Yan Jingsheng has millions of followers on Weibo, China’s version of Twitter, and Perel is author of the book “Europa, Europa.” The two met when Perel gave a talk to a delegation of Chinese bloggers in Israel…
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