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 Trump Budget Cuts $3 Million From Holocaust Museum
The White House’s 2018 budget proposal includes a five percent cut in the budget of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Now, lawmakers are stepping up to defeat this proposed cut. The Hill reported Friday that a bipartisan slate of 64 members of Congress sent a letter to the relevant appropriations subcommittee demanding to reverse the…
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Fast Forward First French Concentration Camp Being Converted Into Memorial
(JTA) – An abandoned train station in eastern France that during the Holocaust became the first concentration camp for Jews in that country is being rebuilt as a memorial museum. The Pithiviers station saw in May 1941 the arrival of more than 3,500 Jews without French citizenship, whom authorities ordered to report to police stations…
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Fast Forward French-German TV Channel Under Fire For Canceling Anti-Semitism Documentary
(JTA) — The French-German channel Arte is facing criticism for deciding not to broadcast a documentary called “Chosen and Excluded — Jew Hatred in Europe.” Arte’s head of programming, Alain le Diberder, wrote a letter to the Central Council of Jews in Germany on Thursday defending the network’s decision, according to Deutsche Welle. Diberder’s said that the…
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Opinion Elie Wiesel’s Son Remembers His Father’s Love And Compassion
As the first anniversary of the death of Elie Wiesel approaches, his only child, Elisha Wiesel, reflected on the gifts his father left for him in an essay published by Jewish Week. The essay, in which Wiesel also revealed his conflicts with the acclaimed writer (and former staffer of the Forverts) and Holocaust survivor as…
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Fast Forward Fugitive Holocaust Denier Ordered Extradited Back To Germany
(JTA)– A Hungarian court has ordered the extradition of German right-wing extremist Horst Mahler who fled Germany to avoid serving out the rest of a sentence for Holocaust denial and incitement to anti-Semitism. Mahler, 81, was arrested on May 15 in the Hungarian city of Sopron while trying to cross into Austria. The Budapest city court on…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner’s Family Is A Legend In This Belarus Town
NOVOGRUDOK, Belarus (JTA) — People in Jared Kushner’s ancestral town tend to speak very highly of President Donald Trump. That’s generally the norm in the former Soviet Union. After all, Trump’s style goes over well in this part of the world — a survey conducted in November in Russia found that 45 percent of respondents said they…
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Fast Forward Spokane Rabbi Targeted By Anti-Semites After Advertising Holocaust Event
A Spokane, Wash. rabbi is facing online anti-Semitism after advertising a Holocaust memorial event on Facebook. “It’s not a good feeling to have hundreds of Jew haters verbally attack you,” said Rabbi Yisroel Hahn, who had created a Facebook page to advertise an upcoming speaking event of Holocaust survivor Marthe Cohn. Hahn told local TV…
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Fast Forward Harvard Rescinds Acceptance Of Students Who Posted Holocaust And Racist Memes
Harvard University has revoked its acceptance of at least 10 applicants to its incoming freshman class after learning the group traded sexually explicit and racist images, some of which mocked the Holocaust, the student newspaper reported. A university spokeswoman declined on Monday to comment on Sunday’s Harvard Crimson report, which cites multiple members of the…
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