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 Remembering What They Fought For
April 19th was warm in Warsaw, just like it had been 71 years earlier. I left my apartment wearing a coat, which I soon shed as I walked due North toward the Museum of the History of Polish Jews. As I did, I removed from it and restuck a paper daffodil to my shirt, unsure…
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Fast Forward Repairman Finds Doomed Holocaust Victims’ American Visa Applications
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — An electrician from the Netherlands discovered during repair work a suitcase containing visa applications to the United States that Holocaust victims filled out 76 years ago. The electrician, Guus Braam, and the owner of the home where he discovered the suitcase wrapped in newspaper inside a crawl space, gave the objects to…
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Fast Forward Allies Knew About The Holocaust 2 Years Before Liberating Camps
The Allied Powers knew about the Holocaust two and a half years before they intervened, newly accessed documents show, according to a report in the UK’s Independent newspaper. The U.S., the UK and the Soviet governments had even prepared war crime charges against Adolf Hitler and head Nazis, aware that at least two million Jews…
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Fast Forward How A Wedding Ring Led To Capture Of Infamous Auschwitz Commander
Seventy years ago yesterday, Auschwitz commander Rudolf Franz Höss was hanged near the crematorium where he oversaw the murder of millions of Jews. A few days earlier, he had sent his wedding ring back to his wife, telling her that she should go by her maiden name from then on, in order to disassociate herself…
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Culture Uncovering The Secret Tunnel That Helped Jews Of Vilna Escape The Nazis
“Holocaust Escape Tunnel,” the latest episode in the PBS science series “Nova” follows a group of scholars and engineers as they use the latest ground radar techniques to re-discover an important piece of Jewish history in Vilna. Napoleon called Vilna (now officially Vilnius) the “Jerusalem of the North.” It was home to Elijah ben Solomon…
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Opinion Sean Spicer Is Dangerous — Whether He’s Malevolent Or Incompentent
Jews emerged from the Passover holiday to learn that Sean Spicer, the malaprop-spouting, reporter-bashing White House press secretary, had managed to outdo himself with a barrage of Holocaust ignorance (to put it charitably). Should we care? Yes. Though Spicer has apologized, and some of his apologists have insisted it was simply a “gaffe,” in fact…
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Fast Forward Howard Stern Blasts Sean Spicer For Speaking ‘Fluent Moron’ About Holocaust
Outspoken radio host Howard Stern has some choice words for Sean Spicer, slicing and dicing the White House press secretary for his comments earlier this week about the Holocaust. “The guy’s just not informed, and it’s kind of embarrassing — it’s just embarrassing. But it’s entertaining as hell,” Stern said Wednesday on his SiriusXM program,…
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Fast Forward Vilnius University Won’t Honor Holocaust Victims Who Fought Nazis
(JTA) — Vilnius University in Lithuania said it would give academic degrees posthumously to Jewish students who were unable to graduate because they were murdered in the Holocaust — unless they were partisans. In a statement published on Wednesday on its website announcing the initiative entitled “Recovering Memory,” Vilnius University encouraged relatives of Holocaust victims…
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