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 Son Of Minnesota Man, 98, Accused Of Nazi War Crimes, Calls For Release Of Evidence
(JTA) – The son of a Minnesota man, 98, accused by a police court of Nazi war crimes, has called for the evidence against his father to be released. Andriy Karkoc, son of the Minnesota man first identified by the Associated Press as Michael Karkoc, called on Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, the two Democratic…
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Culture A Tale Of Madness, Murder, And Mathematics
There’s a well-known formula for creating a juicy story known as “The Three M’s” – murder, madness, and mathematics. Okay, so maybe not, but there is at least one story around that satisfies both the “juicy” and “three M’s” categories: the story of Andre Bloch (which first came to my attention via the blog of Dr….
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Fast Forward Croatia Pushes Back Against $3.5B Holocaust Lawsuit Blaming Pro-Nazi Quisling Regime
Croatia rejected on Monday the allegations made in a lawsuit that demands billions in compensation to people held in concentration camps on Croatian territory during World War Two. The Ustasha regime ruled Croatia as allies of Nazi Germany from 1941 until the end of the war in 1945. Several concentration camps operated on its territory,…
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Fast Forward Switzerland Launching Holocaust Remembrance App
BERLIN (JTA) — A new app to teach youth about the Holocaust will be a centerpiece of Switzerland’s chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. Switzerland took over the rotating chairmanship of the 31-member inter-governmental group on March 7 from Romania. The app, called Fliehen vor dem Holocaust, or Escaping the Holocaust, allows users to learn about the fate…
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Culture The Incredible Holocaust Photographs Of Henryk Ross Show Daily Life In The Lodz Ghetto
From 1940 to 1944, photographer Henryk Ross documented life inside the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. Officially, Ross worked for the ghetto’s Jewish Administration’s Statistics department, photographing the Jewish ghetto’s inhabitants for identification cards and for propaganda images to be used by the Nazis. When Ross was not working in his bureaucratic capacity however, he risked…
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Books How Timothy Snyder’s Facebook Post Became A Guide To Living Under Tyranny
ON TYRANNY: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century By Timothy Snyder Tim Duggan Books. 128 pp. $7.19 Out of boredom, a shepherd boy, calls to the adults in his village to tell them that a wolf is chasing his flock of sheep. When the villagers arrive to help the boy, they find no wolf, because…
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Fast Forward Ivanka Trump Takes Kushners On Private Tour Of Holocaust Museum
(JTA) — Ivanka Trump took a private tour the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum last week. Reports of the visit, said to have taken place last Monday, originated on Friday with Bloomberg, citing an unnamed person the news service reported was familiar with her visit, which was not announced publicly. She reportedly was accompanied by…
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Culture Maybe I Tried Too Hard To Save A Holocaust Survivor
Mrs. Zelnick’s lips were blue, her eyes glazed over, and her oxygen saturation at 70%. But her nails had been done earlier that week and were a lovely shade of crimson. Her hair, although slightly mussed from the pillows, had not lost its set. Even in her dazed state, she possessed dignity and grace. I…
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