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 ZOA Criticizes Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Statement
(JTA) — The Zionist Organization of America expressed its “chagrin and deep pain” that a statement by the Trump administration marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day did not mention the Jewish victims of the Nazis. In a news release Sunday evening, Morton A. Klein, national president of the ZOA, praised President Donald Trump as a “great friend…
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Opinion Why It Matters to Jews When Trump Generalizes the Holocaust
(JTA) — “Where’s Jared Kushner?” Supporters of Donald Trump have often defended his campaign against charges of anti-Semitism by noting he has an Orthodox Jewish daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren. Jews on the right are excited about Kushner’s role as a special adviser to the president, assuming he’ll be their advocate on Israel and other Jewish…
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Culture Trump’s Holocaust Remembrance Day Statement Is A Threefold Disgrace
January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. But “Holocaust Remembrance” is not as clear cut a phrase as it might seem. In Poland, the government is suing Holocaust scholar Jan Gross over his work on the country’s role in the genocide. In Lithuania, another blood-soaked nation that refuses to reckon with its past, we see…
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Community We Aren’t Supposed To Count Jews — But Sometimes, We Must.
Seventeen. A number that in Hebrew Gematria, represents tov, Goodness. But today on Holocaust Remembrance Day, that number, for me, has a deeper meaning. You see, my grandfather Moshe (ז׳׳ל) was blessed, if you could call it that (I will), to survive the Holocaust, spending years alone hiding and fleeing through villages and forests before…
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News Trump Holocaust Day Statement Omits Jews But Vows To Spread Love
(JTA) — In his first statement about the Holocaust as president, Donald Trump vowed to make “love and tolerance prevalent throughout the world” and made no mention of Jews. “It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust,” Trump said in a statement…
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Fast Forward Trump Doesn’t Mention Jews in Holocaust Remembrance Day Message
President Donald Trump issued a statement on Friday’s Holocaust Remembrance Day that left some scratching their heads due to its omission of any reference to Jews. “It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, and heroes of the Holocaust,” the statement from the White House Press…
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Fast Forward WATCH: Meet Nonagenarian ‘Big Sonia,’ Among Last Holocaust Survivors of Kansas City
It’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, and as the number of survivors steadily dwindles, there’s a heartwarming documentary out there that follows the life of one of them, the nonagenarian Sonia Warshawski. She lives in Kansas City, Missouri and still drives on her own and runs a tailor shop. Joie de vivre permeates “Big Sonia,” from Warshawski’s…
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Fast Forward Twitter Bot Speaks for the Murdered Passengers of the St. Louis
In 1939, U.S. officials turned away a passenger liner packed with 900 desperate Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany. Denied rescue, the ship turned back to Europe, where hundreds of the refugees were slaughtered in Nazi death camps. In honor of today’s observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jewish educator and activist Russel Neiss set up…
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