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 Boston Holocaust Museum Vandalized — Arrest Made
(JTA) — Police in Boston have arrested a city man in the vandalism of the Holocaust memorial there. James Issac, 21, of the Roxbury neighborhood, was arrested early Wednesday morning shortly after a glass panel of the New England Holocaust Museum was smashed with a large rock, the Boston Globe reported. Issac reportedly was identified…
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Community How Should You Teach Children About The Holocaust? One Story At A Time.
My mother survived the Holocaust. Her story is one of courage, quick thinking and good fortune. After moving, with her parents, from Austria to France then Belgium to escape the Nazis, she hid in a hospital for two years. She endured. It always was a private story. I never thought to speak about it —…
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Fast Forward Polish Official Faces Backlash For Saying ‘Nation’ Took Part In The Holocaust
(JTA) — Poland’s human rights commissioner is being urged to resign after saying the “Polish nation” took part in carrying out the Holocaust — a controversial statement in a country whose government increasingly emphasizes that Poland never collaborated with the Nazis. Speaking Wednesday on the state-run TVP Info, Adam Bodnar said, “There is no doubt that the Germans were responsible…
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Culture The Forgotten Holocaust Poetry Of Hermann Adler
Recently, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), whose wonderful archive we’ve previously covered here, released the debut issue of their journal of art and design “Full Bleed.” Though “journal of art and design” is MICA’s own categorization, “Full Bleed” includes criticism, poetry, memoir, and more. The first issue, focused on the theme of migration,…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel Honored With New York Street Name
Elie Wiesel received a posthumous honor on Tuesday, as New York City renamed a Manhattan street corner in honor of the Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor in a ceremony attended by Mayor Bill de Blasio and family members. “Elie Wiesel was perhaps the most eloquent voice for peace in our world. New York City is…
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Fast Forward Fugitive Holocaust Denier Turned Over To Germany
(JTA) — Hungarian officials have handed over to German authorities right-wing extremist Horst Mahler, who fled Germany to avoid serving out the rest of a sentence for Holocaust denial and incitement to anti-Semitism. Mahler was transferred late last week into German custody at Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt Airport, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. Mahler, 81, was arrested…
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Fast Forward Survivor Gets Apology From Nazi Sympathizer’s Granddaughter Over Looted Home
(JTA) — A New Jersey Holocaust survivor has received an unsolicited apology from the granddaughter of Nazi sympathizers who lived in his Nuremberg home after his family was driven out of Germany at the start of the Holocaust. Doris Schott-Neuse told Peter Hirschmann of Maplewood that she was “deeply ashamed” over what her fellow Germans “did to…
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Fast Forward ‘Holocaust Revisionist’ Organization Upset At Being Labeled A ‘Hate Group’
A self-described group of “Holocaust revisionists” has taken issue with being designated a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Deir Yessin Remembered, based in Ann Arbor, Mich., says that its mission is to spread awareness about a 1948 massacre by Jewish militias that, by some estimates, killed more than 100 Arab villagers. However,…
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