Welcome to 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 Barbra Streisand, Billy Crystal, Jamie Lee Curtis and more headline Claims Conference Hanukkah event for Holocaust survivors
“This year has more significance than others, perhaps, because the seeds of antisemitism are growing around us once again,” said Billy Crystal
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Culture ‘Life is Beautiful’ hit US theaters 25 years ago. The film’s Holocaust humor raised issues that linger today.
Robert Benigni’s Oscar-winning comedy, set in a concentration camp, was polarizing from the get-go
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Film & TV ‘The Zone of Interest’ asks: Why would a family want to live at Auschwitz?
Jonathan Glazer’s masterpiece follows the life of Nazi Commandant Rudolf Höss
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Art Can art help us process the atrocities committed by Hamas on Oct. 7?
In different ways and in different eras, the work of three artists imagines the unimaginable
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Culture Two Holocaust survivors, reunited after 80 years apart, tell their tale in a new short documentary
A Manhattan museum screens “Jack and Sam,” about Polish Jews who met in a labor camp and reconnected in their 90s
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Theater A jam-packed history of wartime Yiddish song leaves you wanting both more and less
The Folksbiene’s ‘Amid Falling Walls’ is a grand showcase that’s often hard to follow
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Forverts in English New musical of Yiddish ghetto songs reminds us why Israel was founded
One great hope expressed by many Jews during the Holocaust was the dream of returning to their ancient homeland
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Culture In New Yorker doc ‘Nina & Irena,’ a director helps his grandmother open up about the Holocaust
Daniel Lombroso sees “Nina & Irena,” his film about his grandmother, as a coda to his 2020 documentary “White Noise”
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Culture Hitler is trending on TikTok again — and they’re trying to make him seem like a nice guy
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Culture You can buy Sukkot gift boxes that say ‘tuchus’ on Amazon
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Fast Forward Sitcom star encourages non-Jews like her to hang mezuzahs on their homes
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Opinion With killing of Hezbollah’s chief, Israel occupies the inarguable moral high ground
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Looking Forward An Israeli hip-hop artist remembers a day of hope in Gaza
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Sports The Jewish Sport Report: How the Chicago White Sox made a bad year even worse for Jewish fans
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Oct. 7: One Year Later A different closet: Queer Zionists navigate the post-Oct. 7 dating scene
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