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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News Rent A Jew Brings Real, Live Jews To German Students
Do Jews get a discount when they buy a car? Do they own McDonald’s? Do Jews control the media and international banking? Do any of them live here anymore? These are among the questions German schoolchildren ask Jews who volunteer in a new outreach program with the provocative name “Rent A Jew.” The Jews in…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorial Vandalized In Ukraine
(JTA) — Nazi symbols were spray-painted on a monument to Holocaust victims in Ukraine that was erected near their mass graves. The letter X was painted on the Star of David emblazoned on the monument near the western city of Ternopil. A swastika was drawn on the Hebrew-language section of the monument and the SS…
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News Jewish In Chicago Last Week: Aimee Levitt’s Subjective Guide
“Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezin” came to Chicago last night for a one-night benefit for Holocaust Community Services, a program that takes care of the 6,000 Holocaust survivors still living in the Chicago area. Before an audience of donors and 300 survivors, Murry Sidlin conducted the Chicago Philharmonic and the Chicago Vocal Artists Ensemble through…
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Fast Forward Light A Virtual Yahrzeit Candle With Yom Hashoah App
Jews light yahrzeit candles to commemorate Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Holocaust Remembrance Day, but keeping a flame alive for hours may not be possible for some students in college dorms or the elderly in nursing homes. Susan Ringel of Pepper Pike, Ohio created the Yom HaShoah Candle App last year to allow anyone with an…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Holocaust Survivor Returns To Auschwitz And Remembers
Seven decades after he was freed from Auschwitz, Rabbi Nissen Mangel returned this week to give a speech on the grounds where once sat crematoria that gassed more than a million Jews. Mangel recounts in the powerful video his experiences as a 10-year-old child being deported to Auschwitz with his family and going through the…
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Fast Forward Mel Gibson Now Donates To Holocaust Survivors
(JTA) — Mel Gibson clearly knows he has a long road to winning back support from the Jewish community. But it seems as if he is willing to try. The movie star — known for a drunken anti-Semitic rant and promoting the idea that the Jews killed Jesus in “The Passion of the Christ” —…
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Life Pro-Life Holocaust Analogies Still With Us
In Slate, Ruth Graham explores the surprisingly extensive history of pro-life rhetoric comparing abortion to the Holocaust. She traces the phenomenon to an analogy made by Pope Pius XII in 1951, a time when the specifics of Nazi ideology were still fresh in people’s minds: Catholics dominated the pre-Roe anti-abortion movement, and they saw an…
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Fast Forward New Law In Greece, Descendants Of Holocaust Survivors Can Now Apply For Citizenship
(JTA) — Greek lawmakers passed a parliamentary amendment that will allow descendants of Holocaust survivors from Greece to apply for citizenship. The amendment passed on Thursday was praised on Saturday by the head of the country’s Central Board of Jewish Communities, the French news agency AFP reported. “This is a moral victory,” and a “fresh…
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