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 Denier Sentenced To Visit Concentration Camps
A former member of parliament in Belgium who was convicted of Holocaust denial has been ordered to visit concentration camps and write about his experiences as part of his punishment. Laurent Louis, who has been expelled from numerous political parties, was also fined $20,000 for his comments questioning the number of Jews killed in gas…
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Life Kol Nidrei. Berlin, 1945.
Berlin 1945. American soldiers, male and female, occupy every available seat in the auditorium dominated by an American flag. The room barely stirs. A young chaplain draped in a tallit, the sort they all wore at their bar mitzvahs, stands behind a lectern placed off to the side. Approaching from the right, a young private…
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Fast Forward Sheriff Joe Arpaio Appears On Holocaust-Denying Website
Controversial former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio has been lying low since being pardoned by President Donald Trump last month, but recently Arpaio broke his silence — and granted an interview with a Holocaust-denying website. In a September 15 interview with the American Free Press — titled “Arapio Bypasses the Fake Media” — Arpaio discussed his…
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Life Remembering My Father, Elie Wiesel, On The Eve of Rosh Hashanah
This time of year was a difficult time for my father. Did each September — or more precisely, each month of Elul in the Hebrew calendar – did each one get progressively more difficult for him as he got older? Or did I just get more attuned to his feelings as I got older? Perhaps…
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Fast Forward Florida Holocaust Survivors Went Days Without Food Or Water After Hurricane
Volunteers with a Jewish funeral society discovered dozens of Holocaust survivors in one Florida condo building who had lasted through Hurricane Irma and its aftermath for days without food, water or power, Yeshiva World News reported. The Chesed Shel Emes society had received a request to check on an elderly Jewish woman at the Olympic…
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Life Keeping Holocaust Survivor Testimonies Alive — Through Holograms
As Holocaust survivors die out, many museums and study centers are scrambling to figure out just how to preserve testimonies in ways that will engage young people of the future. One answer may be holography. Illinois’ Holocaust Museum & Education Center will be unveiling its long-awaited, multi-million-dollar Take A Stand Center this October, which combines…
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Fast Forward ‘Holocaust Survivors Band’ Sings Songs Of Hope In Berlin
BERLIN (Reuters) – Two aging Holocaust survivors joined forces with a younger Israeli singer to perform songs of hope at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday at a time when Germany is seeing a rise in anti-Semitism. Saul Dreier, a drummer aged 92, and Reuwen “Ruby” Sosnowicz, an 89-year-old accordionist, backed up Gad Elbaz at a…
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Fast Forward 30 Polish ‘Righteous Gentiles’ Honored For Holocaust ‘True Heroism’
(JTA) — Some 30 Polish rescuers of Jews living in Warsaw during the Holocaust were honored by a foundation that assist Righteous Gentiles. The rescuers who met Sunday at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jewry in Warsaw range in age from late 80s to 101, according to the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous,…
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