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 Nazi Guard Says Jail Sentence Violates His ‘Right To Life’
(JTA) — A 96-year-old former Auschwitz guard who was deemed fit to serve a prison sentence has challenged his jail sentence arguing that it violates his “right to life.” Oskar Groening was convicted and sentenced in July 2015 to four years in jail for his role in the murder of 300,000 Hungarian Jews at the…
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Fast Forward Pope Francis Calls Holocaust A ‘Hell’ In Book On Nazi Medical Experiments
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — Pope Francis condemned the Holocaust and the medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors on Jewish concentration camp inmates. The pope’s condemnation appears in an introduction he wrote in an upcoming book written by three Argentine doctors about the Nazi medical experiments. His co-author is his longtime Argentine friend Rabbi Abraham…
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Yiddish World VIDEO: Avrom Karpinovitch, Writer, Remembers Jewish Criminals In Vilna
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. Vilna writer Avrom Karpinovitch dedicated his life to describing the colorful personalities of the lower class and criminal element of his city on the eve of the Holocaust. In this video he tells us about Tall Tamara, the Jewish streetwalker; Avrom Mosevski, the glutton; and Gedalke the…
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Fast Forward ‘Holocaust’ Will Be In South Carolina School Curriculum After All
The word “Holocaust” will be allowed in a new set of curriculum standards in South Carolina’s public schools, even though it the word was originally dropped, the AP reported. The original proposal, which had no reference to the Holocaust, was written by community stakeholders and teachers, and not by Department of Eduction officials. “Their intention…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Goes Skydiving With Grandson For His 18th Birthday
An 85-year-old Holocaust survivor skydived with her grandson on his 18th birthday near Hollywood, a local news station reported. “Thank God. Nice family, nice children, nice grandchildren. I’m not complaining. God was very good to me,” Henriette Siebenberg said. Though Siebenberg’s father was killed in Auschwitz, her mother hid her and her two brothers in…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Middle School Hitler Homework ‘Flabbergasts’ Parents In Chicago Suburb
A Hitler version of “My Little Pony.” Spongebob Squarepants with swastikas. Parents of middle schoolers in a Chicago suburb were horrified to find these images in their students’ language arts folders after a teacher gave them a controversial, Hitler-themed assignment, the New York Post reported. Modeled on the celebrated children’s book “If You Give A…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor: North Korea’s Prisons Camps ‘Even Worse’ Than Auschwitz
A judge who survived the Holocaust called North Korean prison camps “as terrible or even worse” than Nazi concentration camps upon hearing testimony from former prisoners of the regime, The Washington Post reported. Thomas Buergenthal, who survived a ghetto in Poland and the Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen concentration camps as a boy, is a former human…
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Fast Forward Senate Unanimously Passes Bill To Help Holocaust Survivors Obtain Restitution
(JTA) — The Senate unanimously passed a bill to help Holocaust survivors and the families of victims obtain restitution or the return of Holocaust-era assets. The Justice for Uncompensated Survivors Today, or JUST Act, which was introduced in February by Sens. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisc., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., received unanimous approval on Tuesday, The measure requires…
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