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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Community Sean Spicer’s Downplaying of the Holocaust Comes at the Worst Time Possible
For years, the horrors of the Holocaust were demonstrated to the public through the stories of victims and the soldiers who liberated them. Speeches by Holocaust victims used to pack arenas on college campuses across the nation. Few college students secured their cap and gown without hearing a survivor speak on their campus. These survivors…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Praise Florida Golf Tourney For Dumping Allianz
(JTA) — Holocaust survivors praised the termination of Allianz’s sponsorship of an annual Florida golf tournament. Survivors, who say the international insurance company still owes an estimated $2 billion in unpaid claims to them, have been protesting the annual PGA seniors tournament held in Boca Raton since 2011. Allianz has sponsored the tournament for the past 11 years….
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Community Growing Up In The Shadow Of The Holocaust
I wasn’t aware there was either an annual Day of Remembrance or Holocaust Memorial Day until I went to Israel on a pre-college semester at Tel Aviv University a few months after the Yom Kippur War. In my life, every day was Holocaust Memorial Day. I was a child of Holocaust survivors whose small community…
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Community The Selfishness Of Silence
On December 10, 1986, Eli Wiesel accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. His acceptance speech exemplifies so much of his character, his grace, his fearlessness, his greatness. As the speech called to the people of that day, it can call us, too, if only we listen. He begins: “Words of gratitude. First to…
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Fast Forward Israel’s President Warns Against Using The Holocaust To Justify Israel
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin spoke against using the Holocaust as the only lens through which to understand Jewish history, warning that such an approach could damage Israel’s relations with the world community. “We need to ask ourselves: Whether, when we are involved only in preventing a Shoah, are we capable of most effectively meeting the…
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Fast Forward Trump Mourns Jewish Victims In Holocaust Remembrance Speech
NEW YORK (JTA) – President Donald Trump paid extended tribute to the memory of the Holocaust and to Israel in a speech to the World Jewish Congress. Given via prerecorded video at the opening dinner of the WJC’s Plenary Assembly in New York City Sunday night, Trump’s remarks honed close to Jewish communal talking points….
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Fast Forward Trump To Visit Holocaust Museum
(JTA) — President Donald Trump will visit the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and then deliver public remarks as part of the museum’s annual Days of Remembrance Ceremony. The ceremony will be held on Tuesday in the Capitol Rotunda, a day after Holocaust Memorial Day is observed in Israel. The week-long Days of Remembrance was first held in…
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Fast Forward Israel’s President Joins Alternative Holocaust Remembrance Event
In recent years, young Israeli Jews have looked beyond the traditional state ceremonies that mark Holocaust Remembrance Day to find more intimate points of connection with survivors. Now, one leader of those state ceremonies is taking note. Israeli president Reuven Rivlin participated in Zikaron BaSalon, or Remembering in the Living Room, an initiative that invites…
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