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 Anne Frank didn’t live here — she never had the chance
A full-scale recreation of the 'Secret Annex' opens in New York, a place the Frank family sought vainly to reach
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News Holocaust distortion more dangerous than denial, warns departing IHRA chief Kathrin Meyer
Meyer, a non-Jewish researcher, has helmed the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance at a time when its definition of antisemitism grew controversial
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Fast Forward The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window
Hila Weisz-Gut’s grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.
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Opinion Why Israel should have little to do with Holocaust Remembrance Day
The memory of this atrocity doesn't belong to any one nation state
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Fast Forward Jews removed from Irish Holocaust memorial event for protesting president’s remarks on Gaza
The incident comes as tensions between Ireland and Israel are at a high
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Books What we write about when we write about Anne Frank
In the latest entry in the 'Jewish Lives' series, Ruth Franklin explores the 'Many Lives' of the most famous witness to the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation
The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their stories
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Music Louisville Orchestra remembers its concertmaster with an opera he performed in a Nazi concentration camp
“Der Kaiser von Atlantis” was written in Theresienstadt by the Czech-Jewish composer Viktor Ullman, who was murdered. The teen violinist survived
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