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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Theater “How can neighbors turn on neighbors?” Descendants of a 1941 pogrom debate the answer
"Our Class," produced by the Classic Stage Company, tells the story of a true and timely Holocaust-era atrocity
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Opinion My mother survived the Holocaust — only to have antisemitism land on her doorstep here.
In Somerville, Massachusetts, our "Stand With Israel" sign was attacked from the right and left
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Fast Forward Yehuda Bauer, preeminent historian of the Holocaust, dies at 98
'The entire field of Holocaust education, remembrance, and research is part of Yehuda’s legacy'
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Fast Forward German town’s memorial stones for Nazi victims are stolen on Oct. 7 anniversary
Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones, have been placed across Europe to pay tribute to Jews murdered during the Holocaust
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Culture In ‘The Brutalist,’ Adrien Brody wills an impossible dream
Brady Corbet’s epic follows a Holocaust survivor struggling to seize the American Dream
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Fast Forward Keir Starmer pledges to build Holocaust memorial and expand Holocaust education across UK schools
‘We will build that national Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre and build it next to Parliament, boldly, proudly, unapologetically,’ Starmer said
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Culture ‘The Day the Clown Cried’ was the film that ‘broke’ Jerry Lewis — did it have to happen that way?
A new documentary about the film sheds light on a doomed production
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Books South Carolina school district restricts Holocaust graphic novel for middle-graders, citing new state law
“We Survived the Holocaust” is a biography of local residents intended for young readers
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Culture Bob Dylan warned us about guys like Stephen Miller
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Opinion The ICE shooting in Minneapolis shattered my Holocaust survivor father’s American dream
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Opinion A quiet diplomatic shift in the Middle East, with monumental consequences for Israel
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News Why protests in Iran seem surprisingly pro-Israel
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Culture He works at a Holocaust museum by day. How’d he end up in ‘Marty Supreme’?
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Opinion Trump’s new Gaza plan marks a radical break from Israeli policy — can it succeed?
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Fast Forward Deborah Lipstadt has second thoughts about tying Jackson synagogue arsonist to ‘Globalize the Intifada’
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Film & TV In Jordan’s pick for the Oscars, a contradictory message about ethnonationalism
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