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 The U.S. Army Has A Restricted Archive Of Hitler Paintings
Fort Belvoir, about 20 miles south of the Pentagon in northern Virginia, is the home of some of the U.S. Army’s most important units, like the Missile Defense Agency and the Intelligence and Security Command. It’s also the home of hundreds of Nazi artworks taken from Germany after World War II — including four paintings…
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Fast Forward Visitors Take Selfies With Hitler At Auschwitz In Indonesian Museum
(JTA) — A museum in Indonesia defended a wax figure of Adolf Hitler set against a backdrop of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Da Mata, a waxwork and visual effects museum in Yogyakarta, amid outrage over the display said it was “fun.” The Hitler figure has been up since 2014. “No visitors complained about it. Most…
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Fast Forward Letters To Oskar Schindler From Jews He Saved To Be Auctioned
(JTA) — More than 70 letters from Jews saved from the Nazis by German businessman Oskar Schindler will be auctioned off. Lawrences Auctioneers of England will be handling the Dec. 8 sale. After Schindler and his wife, Emilie, fled Europe for Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1949, they began to receive letters of gratitude from the…
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Culture Holocaust Survivor’s Piano Teaches A Lesson In Shared Humanity
When Shlomo Margaliot was 15 years old, his mother sewed a stack of Reichsmarks into his shirt and sent him on the most important errand of his young life: He was to purchase four tickets for a ship to Palestine, where the family planned to escape from Nazi Germany. But when Margaliot reached the ticket…
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Fast Forward The Holocaust Is Barely Mentioned In New World War II ‘Call Of Duty’ Game
The latest Call of Duty video game, centered on World War II, barely mentions the Holocaust or Jews, Mashable reported. The only reference to the Holocaust is during a 38-second cutscene in which the narrator talks about seeing things that “stayed with me forever.” “I thought I knew what cruelty was; I didn’t know anything,”…
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Opinion It’s Not The ADL’s Job To Tell Comedians What’s Funny
Last Saturday night, Larry David delivered a monologue on Saturday Night Live (SNL) that included jokes about Harvey Weinstein and picking up women in a concentration camp, among other things. Many publicly denounced the monologue as heresy. Some went so far as to insist that no one should ever make another Holocaust joke ever again;…
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Fast Forward 12 Holocaust Memorial Stones Swiped On Eve Of Kristallnacht Anniversary
German police have launched an investigation into the theft of at least 12 inscribed metal memorial stones embedded in the pavement in Berlin to commemorate Nazi victims. The stones, called “Stolpersteine,” bear the names of the victims and are set in the ground in front of the last address where they lived before being murdered…
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Fast Forward How A Pendant From Sobibor Reunited A Jewish Family
BERLIN (JTA) – In late 1943, the Germans were desperate to cover all traces of their death camp in Sobibor, Poland. They demolished buildings, bulldozed the evidence, planted trees. More than 70 years later, archaeologists led by Yoram Haimi of the Israel Antiquities Authority set about excavating the site, uncovering gas chambers, mass graves —…
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