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 VIDEO: Obama Says U.S. Leading War on Rising Anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON — Anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, and the United States must lead the fight against it, President Barack Obama said in remarks at the Israeli embassy. “Here, tonight, we must confront the reality that around the world, anti-Semitism is on the rise,” Obama said Wednesday at a ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day….
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Fast Forward Former Prisoners Mark Liberation at Auschwitz Death Camp
Former Auschwitz prisoners marked the 71st anniversary of their liberation during a ceremony at the Nazi death camp on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The Holocaust survivors gathered Wednesday at the camp, now a memorial and museum, in southern Poland, many carrying flowers. International Holocaust Remembrance Day is observed on Jan. 27, the anniversary of the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Architect Adolf Eichmann Begged Not to Hang, Letter Reveals
JERUSALEM – Israel made public on Wednesday a handwritten request for clemency by Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, who was executed by Israel in 1962 following a war crimes trial. In his letter to then-President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Eichmann said he was a “mere instrument” of leaders responsible for the killing of 6…
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Opinion How Britain Remembers the Holocaust, More Than 70 Years On
As the UK Deputy Ambassador in Warsaw from 2004 to 2008, I attended many events during my time in Poland to commemorate World War II. But one I will never forget was the 60th anniversary of the liberation at Auschwitz. In the middle of Polish winter, world leaders, including the UK Foreign Secretary and Prince…
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Fast Forward New Sickening Details on Nazi Medical Experiments Revealed
Newly discovered testimony provides brutal new details about Nazi medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners, including reportedly locking one man inside a glass cage with thousands of mosquitoes in order to infect him with malaria. An archivist recently stumbled upon an undated, three-page deposition submitted by a Jewish survivor of several concentration camps while cataloging…
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Fast Forward Germany’s Merkel Opens Holocaust Art Exhibit in Berlin
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the biggest exhibition of Holocaust art outside Israel in Berlin on Monday, after pledging to take concerns about rising anti-Semitism seriously. The “Art from the Holocaust” show features 100 works from Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial center, which were created by Jewish inmates at concentration camps, labor…
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Fast Forward David Stoliar, Sole Survivor of the Torpedoed Struma, Remembered
David Stoliar, the only survivor of the Struma, which was carrying 800 Jews fleeing the Holocaust in Romania, died in 2014, but his death was not widely or nationally reported. Stoliar was on board the Struma, which was barred from entering then-Palestine, held in Turkey for several months, then set adrift without power and torpedoed…
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Fast Forward Trump-Promoted Twitter That ‘Gassed’ Sanders Now Pro Bernie — Not
That @WhiteGenocideTM Twitter that Donald Trump retweeted from? It’s now morphed into a mock “Bernie 4 Prez” feed. Trump retweeted a deprecating post about Jeb Bush last week from the Twitter, but critics quickly noted that by doing so he was promoting a site filled with anti-Semitic ramblings directed at Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders,…
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