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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Politics The ‘Gestapo Game’ at the high school where Tim Walz worked was part of a trend Holocaust educators now reject
“Trying to simulate the conditions that victims of the Holocaust experienced was absurd,” Walz wrote in his thesis
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Culture ‘I’d tell myself I could absorb into white America’: Probing assimilation and the Holocaust, in a graphic memoir
‘Never Again Will I Visit Auschwitz’ is a funny and harrowing account of Shoah survivors and their descendants
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Culture Did ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ inspire Raoul Wallenberg’s Holocaust heroism?
Wallenberg saw an anti-Nazi remake about the superhero with a double life. ‘Pimpernel’ also inspired Stan Lee and Larry David
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Fast Forward Antisemitism and protests in the United States trigger PTSD in Holocaust survivors
“A lot of these fears were still there under the surface, and now they’re coming back up,” said the director of a group that helps survivors
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Culture In a young boy’s diary, a record of how Jews lived to the fullest, even in the face of death
YIVO’s new online exhibition tells the story of cultural life in the Vilna ghetto
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Fast Forward 7 Holocaust museums condemn vandalism against one of their own after police say it wasn’t a hate crime
“The senseless scapegoating of Jews did not begin or end with the Holocaust. It’s been happening for thousands of years, and while the pretext may change, the antisemitic motivation is the same,” the seven centers said in a joint statement Monday
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Film & TV Eichmann’s judgment — through the eyes of those who burned his body
Jake Paltrow speaks about his Hebrew-language film ‘June Zero’
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Fast Forward 102-year-old Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer is Vogue Germany’s latest cover model
Friedländer, a celebrity in Germany, was photographed in luxury clothing at a botanic garden in Berlin
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Fast Forward Unarmed man who tackled Bondi Beach Hanukkah attacker identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed
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Opinion I grew up believing Australia was the best place to be Jewish. This Hanukkah shooting forces a reckoning I do not want.
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Fast Forward Hanukkah shooting leaves at least 15 dead at Australia’s most popular beach
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Fast Forward Father and son suspects in Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack identified as Sajid and Naveed Akram by law enforcement
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Fast Forward Australian authorities confirm that Bondi Beach attackers were affiliated with Islamic State terror group
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Fast Forward New footage emerges of Jewish man trying to disarm Bondi Beach shooters before massacre
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Opinion Why Sydney’s Hanukkah attack was not a surprise to hate researchers
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