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 Auschwitz Ceremony To Mark 71st Anniversary of Camp’s Liberation
WARSAW, Poland — President Andrzej Duda of Poland and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of Croatia are expected to attend the ceremony at the Auschwitz memorial marking the 71st anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation. Dozens of survivors and their relatives will also be on hand for Wednesday’s commemoration. Red Army troops liberated Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945…
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Fast Forward Polish Town Remembers Its Jewish Residents Murdered in Holocaust
WARSAW, Poland – A Polish town unveiled a monument to thousands of its Jews murdered in the Holocaust. The monument unveiled Friday in Suwalki is at the site of the northeastern town’s synagogue destroyed in 1956 after being severely damaged by the Germans during the Nazi occupation. Its inscription reads, in Polish, Hebrew and English:…
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Fast Forward Is Candy-Making Holocaust Survivor World’s Oldest Man at 112?
A Holocaust survivor in Haifa is believed to be the oldest man in the world. Yisrael Kristal, 112, achieved that status this week after Yasutaro Koide of Japan, also 112, died, Haaretz reported Thursday. Kristal’s grandson, Oren, received an email this week from the Gerontology Research Group, an international organization that tracks the world’s over-110…
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Fast Forward Israeli Flag From ‘Exodus’ Ship Is Donated to Holocaust Museum
The Israeli flag that flew over the SS Exodus carrying Holocaust refugees to Palestine reportedly was donated to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The flag was delivered to the museum by one of the donors, Bill Silverstein of Chicago, on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. Some 4,500 Holocaust survivors and other refugees were on…
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News George Weidenfeld, Inspirational Holocaust Survivor Who Funded Rescue of Christians From ISIS, Dies at 96
George Weidenfeld, a Holocaust survivor who famously repaid the debt of honor to those who saved him by bankrolling the rescue of Christians from Islamic State, has died at 96. The Jewish publishing magnate credited Christians with helping him escape the Nazis and went on to build one of the most influential publishing houses in…
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Fast Forward Jewish Paper Slams Belgian Daily’s Interview With Holocaust Denier
Jewish Newspaper Slams Belgian Daily’s Interview With Holocaust Denier Complains over Holocaust denier interview in daily January 19, 2016 8:26am ANTWERP (JTA) — A Belgian Jewish newspaper complained to the country’s watchdog on journalism about a daily that published a Holocaust denier’s claim that no one died in Nazi gas chambers. The Antwerp-based Joods Actueel…
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Books Holocaust Survivor Wins Literary Award for 1st Children’s Book
Aharon Appelfeld. BOSTON — A celebrated Israeli novelist is among the winners of this year’s Sydney Taylor Book Award for Jewish children’s books. The Association of Jewish Libraries on Thursday announced the selection of Aharon Applefeld, an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor who has written about the genocide extensively. He won the award for older readers for…
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Culture Was the Holocaust Made Possible by Demise of European States?
In his 2010 book “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,” historian Timothy Snyder examined the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history. That book rethought some key assumptions of both Holocaust and Soviet history by noting similarities and interactions between the two regimes and the events…
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