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 Romania Poised To Pass Holocaust Restitution Bill
Romania is to fast-track claims from Holocaust survivors under an amended law on property restitution which is expected to be passed by parliament next week, legislators said on Tuesday. Romania was an ally of Nazi Germany during World War Two until it changed sides in August 1944, and much of the property seized during the…
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Life How My Grandmother’s Chutzpah Helped Rescue 6,000 Jews From Nazis
(JTA) — The story of Chiune Sugihara – the Japanese consul in Kovno, Lithuania, who disobeyed his government’s orders in 1940 and issued transit visas through Japan to thousands of Jews seeking to flee war-torn Europe — wasn’t widely known until 1985, when Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial authority, honored him as one of the…
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News How Whimsical Comic Books Helped One Couple Stay in Love — and Survive the Holocaust
As a Dutch Jewish couple hiding separately from the Nazis, Emmanuel Joels and Hetty van Son were literally drawn together by a comic book of Emmanuel’s romantic invention. After narrowly avoiding deportation to Auschwitz thanks to a policeman’s tip, the young couple spent 2 1/2 years living less than a mile apart, each in the…
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Opinion How Poland Is Targeting Holocaust Scholar Jan T. Gross for the Sin of Remembering
The anti-Semitic bloodbath that consumed the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941 might have been forgotten to history were it not for the scholarship of the Polish-American historian Jan T. Gross. Now, it would seem, Poland’s new government wishes Gross himself could be forgotten. In his short study, “Neighbors,” published in 2001,…
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Fast Forward Wartime Jewish Remains Buried in Hungary, a Reminder of Dark Past
Budapest (Reuters)- Miklos Heisler was 17 when the Arrow Cross Party took power in Hungary in the final years of World War Two and began a short reign of terror in which thousands of Jews, previously spared from deportation, were killed in Budapest. But Heisler was young and careless, and Arrow Cross paramilitary members caught…
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Fast Forward Christians Join Thousands in Hungary’s March of the Living
Tens of thousands took part Sunday in the “March of the Living,” as well as Hungary’s largest anti-racist rally of the year. March of the Living, now in its 14th year, is held annually to commemorate the deportation of Hungarian Jewry to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The ghettoization of the Hungarian Jews started on April…
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Fast Forward Croatia Jews Hold Own Holocaust Commemoration — Shun Government
Croatian Jews held a Holocaust commemoration a week before the scheduled government event that the community said it would boycott. Some 300 Jewish residents of Croatia attended the ceremony held Friday at the Nazi death camp at Jasenovac, near Zagreb, The Associated Press reported. Earlier this month, the Coordinating Committee of the Jewish Communities of…
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Yiddish World Remembering Archivist and Warsaw Ghetto Survivor Rose Klepfisz
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The archivist Rose Klepfisz died in her apartment in the Bronx on March 23rd at the age of 102. She is survived by her daughter, Irena Klepfisz, a writer and professor at Barnard College, as well as by relatives in Australia and admirers in Bundist circles and…
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