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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Culture Yet Another Polish Culture Director Removed From His Post By The PiS Government
“The day after the fall of Khrushchev, the editors of Pravda, Izvestiia, the heads of the radio and television were replaced; the army wasn’t called out. Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.” So writes Umberto Eco in his essay “Towards a Semiological Guerrilla Warfare.” I very much doubt that Piotr Glinski,…
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News Sean Spicer Faces Resignation Calls For Claiming Hitler Was Better Than Assad
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized for saying Adolf Hitler didn’t resort to using chemical weapons like Syria’s president, after an outpouring of criticism from politicians and Jewish groups on Tuesday, including calls for his removal from his position. Spicer made the remarks during a daily press briefing while addressing the chemical attack and…
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Culture In These Dark Times, Turn To Paul Celan
In a time in which the world is increasingly dangerous, cruel, alienating, and above all, incomprehensible, we might find comfort, or at least kinship, in works of poetry. One such poet, whose inventive use of language is marked by despair and resurrection (as we shall see), seems, to me, particularly worth revisiting. To read Paul…
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Fast Forward Israeli Holocaust Survivor Returns Nazi-Looted Art To American Survivor
It’s not a normal story of art stolen by the Nazis being restored to its rightful owners. When it comes to Max Liebermann’s “Basket Weavers,” the unwitting Israeli purchaser of the looted painting was himself a Holocaust survivor, as was the American to whom it was returned this week. “This was not a legal case…
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Culture What Is It With The Government And The Holocaust?
Ever since its first days, the Trump Administration has had an issue with its Holocaust history. First there was Trump’s ridiculously short, vapid Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, in which he insinuated that Jews should be grateful that Trump took the time to make any kind of statement at all. And now, in a very slightly…
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Fast Forward Prince Charles Recalls Grandmother’s Rescue Of Jews From Holocaust
(JTA) — Prince Charles of the United Kingdom spoke with Holocaust survivors in Austria about his grandmother’s role in saving the lives of a Jewish family during the Shoah. Charles and his wife, Camilla, spent the final day of a nine-day tour of Europe in Vienna, meeting British and Austrian survivors of Nazi persecution at the…
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Fast Forward Antwerp Jews Protest Moving Of Holocaust Monument To ‘Quieter Place’
(JTA) — Belgian Jews protested the unilateral decision by the city of Antwerp to move its main Holocaust monument from a place where victims were rounded up to another part of the city with less traffic. The Forum of Jewish Organizations of the Flemish Region — one of the three autonomous entities that make up the…
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Fast Forward High School Assignment To ‘Defend’ Holocaust Yanked Amid Outcry
(JTA) — A homework assignment asking students in an upstate New York school district to argue for or against the Final Solution from the perspective of a Nazi official was withdrawn and will never be assigned again. High school students in an advanced class in Oswego County were assigned a project to pretend they were…
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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