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 Dreideling Down in Dixie
A friend from Georgia once joked to me, “Everyone down here celebrates Christmas, even if you don’t celebrate Christmas.” The meaning of a Christmas tree in a Jewish home is different in a rural Southern town than it is in a Northern industrialized city. The story of Jewish assimilation and acceptance in the South has…
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Fast Forward Norway Public TV Sorry for Spoofing Holocaust
(JTA) — Norway’s public broadcaster apologized for referencing Nazi death camps and the Jewish genocide in a satirical cartoon about the financial situation of university students. “This cartoon should not have spoofed the Nazi genocide, and we’re sorry this reference obstructed what the sketch is really about,” a spokesperson for the NRK broadcaster wrote on…
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Community A Holocaust Survivor’s Second Battle and a Dog Named Hexe
Sigmund Zlodak felt fine when he settled into his First Class seat on the 7 PM flight to St. Louis. Sig was the chief accountant for an investment firm in St. Louis; he had attended a two-day tax seminar in Denver, and he felt mentally fatigued after his close attention to the lectures on new…
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Culture Holocaust Denial Article No Longer in Google’s Top Search Results
Two weeks ago, the Guardian reported that the top Google search result for “Did the Holocaust happen?” was an article on the neo-Nazi website Stormfront titled “Top 10 reasons why the Holocaust didn’t happen.” The story was picked up by numerous outlets and drew widespread anger (at least from everyone who isn’t a Nazi). When…
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Community What the Holocaust and Coming Out Taught Me About Hard Choices in 2016
My mother, Wilhelmina Herberdina Cornelia Visser Faas, will be turning 98 next April. Although her body is frail, her mind is agile and she continues to follow and weigh in on current affairs. Now that she has lost much of her sight and hearing she is more dependent on individual discussions to keep abreast of…
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Fast Forward How to Hurt Holocaust Denial Online? Pay Google
Google says it can’t do anything to stop a neo-Nazi website from popping up as the first result to a search for “Did the Holocaust Happen?” But a Guardian journalist says she managed to crack the problem alone. It was easy — if you have money. Carole Cadwalladr paid for an advertisement titled “The Holocaust…
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Culture After Aleppo, It’s Time To Stop Saying ‘Never Again’
What do we mean when we say “never again?” These days, do we mean anything at all? Perhaps when the phrase was coined in 1961 by filmmaker Erwin Leiser in his Holocaust documentary, “Mein Kampf,” we might have been able to salvage some semblance of a stance from the words. We had yet to experience…
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Fast Forward Was Anne Frank Caught in Probe of Trade in Ration Coupons?
AMSTERDAM — The raid on Anne Frank’s hiding place in Amsterdam may have been over illegal trade in food rations and other issues and not the result of betrayal, new research suggests. On Friday, the Anne Frank House in the Dutch capital published the results of its research into what led policemen working for the Nazi occupation…
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Film & TV A lackluster exhibit gives short shrift to Claude Lanzmann’s legacy — and to the Shoah’s victims
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Sponsored The moral imperative of a name: Yad Vashem documents five million Holocaust victims
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Fast Forward Jewish New Yorkers rally outside Park East Synagogue, 2 weeks after anti-Israel protest there
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Fast Forward JD Vance rejects claims that antisemitism is growing inside the GOP, breaking his silence on the topic
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