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 Calls Holocaust ‘Savage Crime’ At Yad Vashem
President Donald Trump paid tribute at Israel’s Yad Vashem memorial on Tuesday to the six million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust, calling it an indescribable act of evil. Holding hands, the president and First Lady Melania Trump walked solemnly to lay a wreath together upon the ashes of Holocaust victims, buried at the site’s…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Packs Emotion Into 30-Minute Trump Stop — With One Young Victim’s Tale
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Donald Trump will spend just 30 minutes at Yad Vashem on the second and last day of his visit to Israel, but the leadership of the Holocaust memorial center in Jerusalem plans to use the brief time to deliver a powerful message. Rather than bombarding Trump with facts or analysis, they will tell him…
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Opinion J.D. Salinger’s Holocaust Story Eerily Echoes Anne Frank
The great J.D. Salinger is not a writer we associate with the Holocaust, but as we approach 70th anniversary of “The Diary of Anne Frank,” June 25, there’s a neglected Salinger short story, “A Girl I Knew,” worth recalling as a companion piece to Frank’s memoir. “A Girl I Knew” first appeared in the February…
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Fast Forward Romania Moves To Aid Holocaust Survivors
(JTA) — Romania’s Parliament passed legislation which would provide increased direct financial support for Holocaust survivors. The funds, a monthly payment of up to $97.98 per month for each year of deportation or detention, will be available beginning in July 2017 to people who were persecuted in Romania between 1940 and 1945, including deportees to…
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Fast Forward 88-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Graduates — 71 Years After Nazis Denied Her
(JTA) — A Holocaust survivor in Plymouth, Minnesota received her high school diploma 71 years after she was denied the opportunity by the Nazis. Esther Begam, 88, donned a blue cap and gown earlier this month and received her diploma surrounded by her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren, as well as the Wayzata High School…
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Fast Forward British Nationalist Politician Suspended For Justifying Holocaust In 2014 Tweet
(JTA) — A candidate for the nationalist UKIP party in the United Kingdom’s general elections wrote anti-Semitic remarks regularly on Twitter, including one that justified the Holocaust. The Campaign Against Antiseitism, a British watchdog, on Friday published its dossier on Captain Paddy Singh, UKIP’s candidate for the Wiltshire North constituency in the June 8 general elections. The…
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Community What The Holocaust Museum Teaches Us About Human Nature
A version of this article originally appeared in the Texas Jewish Post. This wasn’t the first time I had been to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. I had gone many years earlier as a day school student on a school trip to our nation’s capital and keenly remember the powerful effect…
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Fast Forward Is 15 Minutes Enough Time For Trump At Yad Vashem?
How long should it take to tour Israel’s main Holocaust museum? If you’re the president of the United States, 15 minutes should be sufficient. According to a report in Israel’s Ynet News, the advance team planning Trump’s visit to Israel allotted only 15 minutes for his visit to Yad Vashem. How will the president use…
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