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 Painting Stolen By The Nazis To Go Up For Auction In Austria
According to a Guardian report, a painting stolen by the Nazis is set to be auctioned by the Im Kinsky auction house in Vienna next week. Van der Helst’s “Portrait of a Man,” a 17th century Dutch Master work, was stolen from the collection of Adolphe Schloss in 1943, a Jewish-German businessman who lived in…
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Fast Forward After Gaffes On Anti-Semitism, Trump Pledges To Fight It
After a rocky first few months in office, in which his White House was accused of demonstrating a lack of sensitivity and understanding to the Holocaust, President Trump delivered a full address in an attempt to correct this perception. Trump, the keynote speaker at the Days of Remembrance ceremony on Capitol Hill, sponsored by the…
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Opinion Fake History, À La Française: Marine Le Pen Plays Fast And Loose With The Holocaust
On July 16-17, 1942, some 9,000 French police rounded up and arrested 13,000 French Jews, the majority of them women and children. Held briefly in inhumane conditions at the Vélodrome d’Hiver stadium, these Jews would soon be deported East, most never to return. French police acted under the supervision not of the Nazis, but of…
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Fast Forward Thousands Back Petition Against Trump Speech At Holocaust Museum
(JTA) — Thousands of American Jews have signed a petition challenging the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s invitation to President Donald Trump to deliver the keynote remarks at the National Day of Remembrance. Launched Monday by Bend the Arc, a Jewish group that advocates for social justice causes, the petition by the following morning had more…
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Fast Forward Elie Wiesel’s Son: Holocaust Lessons ‘Unheeded’ in Syria Disaster
The son of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel said that the United States had not learned the lessons of the Holocaust because it has turned away Syrian refugees. Elisha Wiesel, the son of Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel, who died last year, made the remarks in a speech to the March of the Living program at Auschwitz…
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Culture A Personal History Of Holocaust Remembrance
At this time of year, public memory in Israel is most intense. Things come to a head in the course of a single week, from the morning of Yom HaShoah until the end of Yom HaZikaron. I call this period Bein Hatzefirot, “Between The Sirens,” because it begins with a minute-long siren the morning of…
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Fast Forward Trump Proclaims Week Of Holocaust Remembrance
(JTA) — President Donald Trump proclaimed this week the Days of Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust, ahead of his planned speech at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Trump made the proclamation on Monday, which is observed as Holocaust Remembrance Day. Trump’s statement condemned the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews as well as other minorities. “The…
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Culture Trump’s Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day Statement Continues Tradition Of Denial
Today is not only Yom HaShoah, but also Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. As I have previously discussed, the Armenian Genocide, a crime for which the term “genocide” was coined by Raphael Lemkin, has gone unacknowledged by Turkey, which perpetrated the genocide, and also by countries such as Israel, the U.K., and the United States. In…
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