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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News Saved by the Kindertransport: Meet Two Inspiring Holocaust Survivors
Seventy-eight years ago this week, on December 2, 1938, the first Kindertransport left Germany. In the following months over 10,000 mostly Jewish children were saved from Nazi-occupied territories, because their parents were willing to separate from them. In England they were placed in foster families, schools and shelters. British authorities agreed to grant visas; private…
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Culture WATCH TONIGHT: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Pays Tribute To Elie Wiesel
At 5:30 pm EST today, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will live-stream its tribute to the late Elie Wiesel. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor, whose work as an advocate for Holocaust remembrance continues to shape worldwide discourse on genocide, passed away on July 2. “He was a transformative figure who exemplified…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Students Walk Out of Toronto Holocaust Event
— Students at Ryerson University in Toronto staged a walkout rather than vote on a resolution to commemorate Holocaust Education Week. Local members of Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Students Association reportedly staged the walkout Tuesday night during the semiannual general meeting of the Ryerson Student Union. The meeting lost its quorum,…
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News WATCH: Austrian Holocaust Survivor Pleads for Vote Against Far-Right Presidential Candidate
An octogenarian Holocaust survivor made an emotional video plea urging fellow citizens to vote against Norbert Hofer, a far-right candidate in Austria’s presidential election who stands a good chance of winning power this December. “When they made the Jews clean the streets, the people of Vienna stood there, men and women, and said ‘Look at…
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Fast Forward Skater Wearing Concentration Camp Uniform Sparks Outrage on Russian Television
A Russian state-owned television channel aired a figure-skating performance featuring the wife of a senior Kremlin spokesperson wearing the uniform of a Jewish concentration camp inmate. Russia-1 on Saturday showed the performance by actor Andrey Burkovsky and Tatiana Navka, a professional figure skater who is married to Dmitry Peskov, a spokesperson of Russian President Vladimir…
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Life The Inadequacy of Reparations, Part I: A Holocaust Orphan’s Daughter Revisits France’s Sinister Past
Nineteen, newly married, the check from France must seem like a windfall and a blessing. My parents are still students, accustomed to scrimping and saving and doing without. The check is for $2,000, a lot of money in 1957, especially for a bride who tried to scoop up and save the rice that was thrown…
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Opinion Get Inspired by the Muslim Woman Who Hid a Jew’s Yellow Star With Her Veil
In the wake of the election, hate crimes against Muslims have skyrocketed. Now more than ever, it’s our duty as Jews to stand in solidarity with and in defense of Muslim Americans. This is true because Islamophobic hatred is inherently an unacceptable injustice. It’s also true because we know what it is to feel targeted,…
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Life Trump’s Win Prompts an Urgent Return to Holocaust Testimony
My grandmother Ethel was a Jewish-Polish Holocaust survivor. Lines curled down her face and in the creases of her lips, showing every year she survived. Her dyed reddish poof of hair, over time, turned grey. She would place her hand, in a fist, over her heart. She was the strongest person I’ve ever known. “If…
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Looking Forward My artist grandmother nearly made aliyah. I don’t know what she’d think of Israel today
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