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 Holocaust Survivors Celebrate Bar Mitzvahs 70 Years Later — At Western Wall
More than 40 Holocaust survivors who were never able to celebrate their bar or bat mitzvahs finally did so last week — at the Western Wall. The event, coordinated by the Western Wall Heritage Foundation, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews and Israel’s Office for Social Equality, was welcomed by participants who never got…
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Fast Forward High Schoolers Simulate Nazi Human Experiments For Science Fair
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Brazilian high school students simulated medical experiments that the Nazis conducted on concentration camp prisoners during the Holocaust. The students at Milecimo da Silva high school in Rio De Janeiro were recently assigned to re-create a Nazi laboratory for a science fair. According to the Brazilian Israelite Confederations, the country’s umbrella Jewish…
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Fast Forward With Help Of Concentration Camp Pendant, Forgotten Holocaust Victim’s Family Reunited
One year after her name was recovered from a silver pendant found at a Nazi death camp in Poland, far-flung relatives of a young Holocaust victim named Karolina Cohn gathered in Frankfurt for the first time to honor her memory. “It’s a heart-warming emotion to meet family who were strangers to us before today,” Barry…
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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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