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 Pop Singer Posts ‘Jiggling’ Pics — From A Romanian Holocaust Memorial
A Romanian pop star and former beauty queen posted lewd photographs of herself, taken at the Bucharest Holocaust memorial. Xonia, who recently released her single “Jiggling,” posted two photographs of herself wearing a skimpy outfit and posing in provocative positions — against the backdrop of a memorial dedicated to the 270,000 Romanian Jews killed in…
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Fast Forward Widow Of Holocaust Survivor Donates $22 Million To German Zoo
(JTA) — A millionaire widow from New Jersey has pledged to donate at least $22 million to a zoo in Cologne, Germany in memory of her Jewish husband, a Holocaust survivor. Elizabeth Reichert, 93, was born in Cologne and met her husband, Arnulf, also a Cologne native, during World War II while he was hiding…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Celebrates Bar Mitzvah In Israel, 80 Years Later
HAIFA, Israel (Reuters) – Eighty years after he missed the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony, 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Shalom Shtamberg celebrated his bar mitzvah on Thursday with his family and friends in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Shtamberg was born in Warsaw, Poland, and should have celebrated his bar mitzvah when he turned 13, but instead…
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Fast Forward 93-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Celebrates Bar Mitzvah — 80 Years Late
Eighty years after he missed the Jewish coming-of-age ceremony, 93-year-old Holocaust survivor Shalom Shtamberg celebrated his bar mitzvah on Thursday with his family and friends in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Shtamberg was born in Warsaw, Poland, and should have celebrated his bar mitzvah when he turned 13, but instead he was taken to…
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Life Why I Went Gray
While Proverbs describes gray hair as “a crown of glory [that] is found in the way of righteousness,” most people think of gray as the color of the weary, the tired and the old. When it’s discovered — eek! — in one’s own hair, it’s to be hidden away at all costs (literally, if you’ve…
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Fast Forward Belgium Exempts Holocaust Survivor Pensions From Taxes
(JTA) — Belgium’s Finance Ministry has exempted dozens of Dutch Holocaust survivors from penalties for not reporting special pensions they received from the Netherlands. The New Flemish Alliance, the ruling party of the Belgian state of the Flemish Region, led a reform in federal tax regulations implemented this month that exempts the survivors living in…
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Fast Forward Hungarian Holocaust Memorial Is Smashed
(JTA) — A monument in Hungary commemorating Jewish slave workers later murdered in the Holocaust was defaced. At least three marble plates signifying Jewish headstones were smashed Sunday in Balf, a town located 120 miles west of Budapest, the Jewish weekly Szombat reported Monday. A government spokesman issued a “strong condemnation” of the act, which police are…
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Fast Forward Trump Appointee Praised Writer Who Defended Holocaust Deniers
A pro-life activist whom President Trump appointed to run the Department of Health and Human Services’ family planning programs once praised a controversial writer who repeatedly defended Holocaust deniers and was once fired for writing columns that his own editor called “anti-Semitic.” Teresa Manning, a new deputy assistant secretary at HHS, edited a book of…
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