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 A Heartrending Case For Skipping Synagogue
The kapos at Mauthausen beat Reb Isser ben Avrum so savagely he could no longer stand straight. Sustaining other permanent injuries to his nose and left eye, he was, incredibly enough, one of the more fortunate ones. He arrived in America in the early 1950s and began life anew, remarrying and raising a second family….
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Fast Forward Boston Holocaust Memorial Rededicated After Vandalism
(JTA) — Hundreds gathered in downtown Boston to rededicate a vandalized Holocaust memorial. Two Holocaust survivors joined Gov. Charlie Baker and Mayor Marty Walsh on Tuesday at the New England Holocaust Memorial to unveil a replacement glass panel; the large panel was shattered by a large rock. Religious leaders and other city and state officials…
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Fast Forward Anti-Israel Protests Planned For Paris Holocaust Memorial Event
PARIS (JTA) — A Muslim website called on pro-Palestinian activists to crash a Holocaust commemoration ceremony in Paris to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s attendance. On Friday, the Le Muslim Post urged readers to show up in large numbers at the July 16 state ceremony at the Vel d’Hiv former stadium, where French police…
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Yiddish World Can New Study on Binge Eating Disorder Explain Intergenerational Holocaust Trauma?
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. A strand of DNA is a lot like computer software; it’s the blueprint for the complex computations that cells perform, and like a coding error in a computer program, a single mutation—either a deletion, insertion, or duplication—to the strand can cause cells to malfunction. But DNA doesn’t…
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Fast Forward Shmuley Boteach Defends Trump For Shunning Warsaw Ghetto Memorial
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach is defending President Trump’s decision not to visit the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during his sojourn to Poland. Boteach, who has been a vocal defender of President Trump in recent months, responded in a statement to Poland’s Chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, after Schudrich criticized Trump’s decision to skip the monument….
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Fast Forward My Nazi Aunt’s Dinner Party Ended — With Cold-Blooded Murder Of 180 Jews
In March 1945, an Austrian countess named Margit Batthyany had a dinner party at her castle near the Hungarian border. After the soiree, her Nazi-sympathizer boyfriend told guests to join him on a chilling mission. They went to a group of 180 Jews who were working as slave laborers digging trenches in a nearby field….
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum Launches $50K Drive To Translate Shoah Diaries
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is aiming to raise another $50,000 to translate more Holocaust diaries into English. The Kickstarter campaign announced Wednesday has a deadline of July 13. The museum said it had exceeded its goal of $250,000 in a monthlong campaign launched last month to translate its collection of over…
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Opinion Trump’s CNN Tweet Evoked The Nazis
Last week I was at Foehrenwald, the site of a former refugee camp where I grew up. Located in southern Germany, near Munich, next to the town of Wolfratshausen, it was once a refugee camp for displaced persons in the U.S. zone of occupation. There, under the auspices of United Nations relief agencies, 5,000 Holocaust…
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