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 How The Holocaust Helps Us Understand Independence Day
One day 241 years ago, John Hancock led a group of patriots in signing a document that quickly became the banner of democracy across the world. As with most holidays, the significance of this anniversary has evolved over time, and today the principles to which those 56 men ascribed their names is often lost amid…
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Fast Forward At 102, Epic Novelist Herman Wouk Looks Back On A Life Well Lived
For Herman Wouk, who turned 102 in May, the “main task” of his life has been using his novels to teach readers about history. “To, so far as I could, fix down in literature what happened in World War II and the Holocaust,” he told CBS Sunday Morning. “That was my main task.” Wouk, who…
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Fast Forward WATCH: The Auschwitz Museum Just Released This Moving Documentary
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum just released a moving documentary that tells the story of the museum’s founding and charts its 70-year history. The museum, which receives over one million visitors each year, was founded in 1947. Although the museum is a beacon of Holocaust education for people around the world, it has a controversial history….
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Fast Forward New German Law Curbs Hate Speech, Holocaust Denial On Social Networks
BERLIN (JTA) — The German parliament passed a new law Friday designed to curb hate speech and libel on social networks. The law requires Internet platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to remove material with obviously illegal content and fake defamatory “news” within 24 hours of its having been reported. Previously, illegal material was reported but did not have to be…
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Fast Forward How These Teachers Learned To Teach The Holocaust
NEW YORK (JTA) — When Megan Corbin was in school, she learned about the Holocaust as an optimistic story. Her grade school, she said, “highlighted Anne Frank as the voice of hope, and that really wasn’t the reality.” Now, as an eighth-grade language arts teacher outside of Seattle, she teaches about victims, perpetrators and civilians…
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Life Simone Veil, French Feminist And Politician Who Survived The Holocaust, Dies
(JTA) — Simone Veil, a well-known French politician and Holocaust survivor, died at the age of 89. Veil, a scholar, former judge, feminist activist and former minister of health who in 2012 was awarded France’s highest honor, passed away this week in her home in Paris, her family told the media in France Friday. Veil,…
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Fast Forward Robbers Desecrate Mass Grave Of Holocaust Victims In Crimea
(JTA) — Police in Crimea, a territory that Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, are investigating the desecration by robbers of a mass grave of Holocaust victims near the city of Simferopol. The investigation opened Tuesday following the unauthorized exhumations performed last week at the site of a firing trench, where Nazis and their collaborators…
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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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