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 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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Culture Why It’s Critical That We Demythologize The Holocaust
Why? Explaining the Holocaust By Peter Hayes W.W. Norton & Company, 412 pages, $27.95 The historian Peter Hayes has always derided what he regards as simplistic explanations of complicated phenomena. In his popular Holocaust lecture course at Northwestern University, he savaged Daniel Goldhagen’s argument, in “Hitler’s Willing Executioners,” that a uniquely German “eliminationist anti-Semitism” caused…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor And Granddaughter Of Nazis Make For Unlikely Roommates
They make for an unlikely pair of roommates. Ben Stern is a 95-year-old survivor of the Nazi concentration camps — who now lives with a 31-year-old German grandchild of Nazis, Lea Heitfeld. Stern and Heitfeld, a student at the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, live together in California — and find in each other’s company…
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Fast Forward 200 Attend Funeral Of Holocaust Survivor They Never Knew
JERUSALEM (JTA) — More than 200 Israelis attended the funeral of a complete stranger — a Holocaust survivor from the Canary Islands who was buried in a Tel Aviv cemetery. Hilde Nathan’s final wish was to be laid to rest in Israel alongside her mother, the United With Israel organization said on its website. Nathan, who…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Pushes Amazon To Yank Holocaust-Denying Books
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Yad Vashem Holocaust museum has called on online retailer Amazon to remove books that deny the Holocaust from its websites. Dr. Robert Rozett, director of the Yad Vashem Libraries, last week sent an email to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, requesting that he immediately remove the books from the sites. “It has…
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