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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Books This Auschwitz book trend has got to stop — the sooner the better
It is time to rise up and say: No more book titles including the words 'of Auschwitz'
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Fast Forward U of Minnesota backtracks on Holocaust Center hire who accused Israel of genocide
Raz Segal faced pushback over a piece he wrote for Jewish Currents in the days after Oct. 7
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Fast Forward German Holocaust reparations increase again this year, but plateau expected as survivors perish
The rising tally is driven by health care costs, not direct payments to survivors
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Film & TV Is this a Hitler documentary worth watching?
Joe Berlinger’s Netflix docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial’ is a lot better than it sounds
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News A Holocaust museum cut a survivor from its speaker’s list — for protesting the war in Gaza
Rene Lichtman says a Detroit-area Holocaust museum dropped him after he protested in front of its building
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Film & TV What’s behind the boom in Holocaust TV?
In the past year, the era of mid TV has come to include the Holocaust. What's going on?
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Music How my story about Nazi-looted art inspired an opera by one of America’s greatest composers
'Before It All Goes Dark' started life as an article in the Chicago Tribune
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Culture The untold story of how Jon Ossoff’s cousin survived the Holocaust and got to the US
He escaped a death march, foraged for food in the forest and placed an ad seeking a long-lost aunt in the Forward
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Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
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News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
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Film & TV For ill and for good, this ‘Wicked’ song has become ubiquitous
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News As young Jews move away from Israel, Jewish leaders are reluctant to change their approach
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Opinion How would Jews fleeing Europe have fared under Trump’s anti-immigration policies?
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