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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Culture ‘The Day the Clown Cried’ was the film that ‘broke’ Jerry Lewis — did it have to happen that way?
A new documentary about the film sheds light on a doomed production
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Books South Carolina school district restricts Holocaust graphic novel for middle-graders, citing new state law
“We Survived the Holocaust” is a biography of local residents intended for young readers
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Culture He escaped the Nazis and created Britain’s first memorial to their victims. Now this artist is getting a second look.
A retrospective of the work of Fred Kormis comes as British lawmakers seek to advance a long-planned national Holocaust memorial
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Theater A zombie story about the Holocaust? This audio drama makes it work.
The dead come alive as a parable for Holocaust memory in an unorthodox new audio mini-series
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Fast Forward On X, Tucker Carlson hosts ‘historian’ who says the Nazis didn’t mean for the Holocaust to happen
The conversation with Darryl Cooper was praised by Elon Musk as others called it “pro-Nazi propaganda"
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Culture Why are Jews calling anyone who disagrees with them a kapo?
The term is one of the harshest insults between Jews, yet somehow it has become just another political epithet
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Fast Forward Berlin Holocaust memorial vandalized with antisemitic graffiti
The 1943 protest commemorated by the monument was led by non-Jewish women, most of them married to Jewish men who were detained in a building that had formerly functioned as the Jewish Welfare Administration
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Culture ‘The Day the Clown Cried,’ funnyman Jerry Lewis’ infamously terrible Holocaust movie, is having a new moment. But you still can’t watch it.
A new documentary, an announced remake and an unsealing of archival materials are giving the unfinished movie new life
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