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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Opinion Why Israel should have little to do with Holocaust Remembrance Day
The memory of this atrocity doesn't belong to any one nation state
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Fast Forward Jews removed from Irish Holocaust memorial event for protesting president’s remarks on Gaza
The incident comes as tensions between Ireland and Israel are at a high
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Books What we write about when we write about Anne Frank
In the latest entry in the 'Jewish Lives' series, Ruth Franklin explores the 'Many Lives' of the most famous witness to the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation
The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their stories
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Music Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a Nazi concentration camp
“Der Kaiser von Atlantis” was written in Theresienstadt by the Czech-Jewish composer Viktor Ullman, who was murdered. The teen violinist survived
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Film & TV In the Oscar race: Bob Dylan and Laszlo Toth face the limits of Jewish reinvention
'The Brutalist' and 'A Complete Unknown' show men whose masterpieces can’t escape their past
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Fast Forward Belgium’s railway should apologize but not pay for sending Jews to Nazi death camps, government panel concludes
One member of the commission, the son of Holocaust survivors, excoriated the conclusion
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Film & TV From WWII Amsterdam, a deeply disturbing story of Dutch complicity with the Nazis
Willy Lindwer's Holocaust documentary 'Lost City' unearths a gruesome chapter in Dutch history
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Opinion During WWII, a heroic Jewish lawyer warned against the dangers of a dual state — is it coming true in Trump’s America?
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News Ronnie Eldridge was one of NYC’s toughest political minds
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