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 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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Fast Forward Cyclists Pay Tribute To Champ Who Saved Jews From Holocaust
ROME (JTA) – Italian and Israeli cyclists are paying tribute this week to Gino Bartali, an Italian cycling champion who saved hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust and in 2013 was recognized as a Righteous Among Nations. Bartali, who died in 2000, smuggled Resistance messages and false documents for Jews hidden in his bicycle frame…
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News This Week In Chicago: Remembering History Amid Springtime Gloom
It’s springtime in other parts of the world, but Chicago is still dark and grim. This is a good week for going to a museum and getting all existential and gloomy. As it happens, there’s a unique chronicler of the Holocaust coming to town who fits the bill. On Tuesday, May 16, Father Patrick Desbois,…
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Fast Forward National Front Got French Mayor To Close Holocaust Exhibit During Election
(JTA) — A French mayor closed down an exhibition on the Holocaust at the urging of politicians from the far-right National Front party, who said it constituted illicit campaigning on election day. The mayor of Ploeren, Gilbert Lorho, ordered the closure of the exhibition on May 7, the day when millions of Frenchmen participated in…
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Fast Forward Looking For A Holocaust Historian? Google Suggests Leading Holocaust Denier
At times in the course of the Jewish news business, one needs to get in touch with a Holocaust historian. Some days you know just which Holocaust historian to call. Other days your brain farts out, and you flail through the web until you turn up the right phone number. Today was one of those…
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