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 Why Holocaust Humor Is Now Serious Business
For more than 25 years, we had been trying to make a feature documentary titled “The Last Laugh,” which asks whether there is any place at all for humor in approaching the horrific topic of the Holocaust. The idea began with a 1990 visit to Miami’s Holocaust Memorial, then newly opened, where a friend of…
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Fast Forward Czech Children Saved By ‘British Schindler’ Dedicate Prague Memorial
(JTA) — A group of children saved from the Nazis by Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler,” unveiled a monument in Prague to their parents. The monument, called the Farewell Memorial, is comprised of a replica of a train door from 1939, with the imprints of hands of children on one side, and…
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Fast Forward Leaked Facebook Document Shows Lax Policy On Holocaust Deniers
Earlier this week, The Guardian published leaked Facebook guidelines for moderators charged with deciding whether to take down hateful content from the social media site. Possibly the most controversial revelation is how Facebook determines whether to remove content which denies the Holocaust. According to the documents, moderators should only take down such content in four…
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Opinion This Week In Anti-Semitism: Conspiracy Theories Abound
The Forward regularly monitors the surge of anti-Semitism across the country and around the world. The mission of this column is not to unduly alarm, but rather to raise awareness of a disturbing trend that, from some vantage points, can prove difficult to spot. While Donald Trump was en route to Saudi Arabia last week,…
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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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