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 ‘Fred the Furrier,’ Who Drove Auschwitz Shul Restoration, Dies At 83
(JTA) — Fred Schwartz, a New York-area philanthropist and businessman who marketed affordable mink, sable and fox under the name “Fred the Furrier,” has died at 84. Schwartz, of Great Neck, New York, died Aug. 7 after an illness. Schwartz operated “Fur Vaults” at three Alexander’s department stores, earning praise and scorn for opening up a once-exclusive industry through…
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Fast Forward Belgian High School ‘Proud’ of Teacher Honored at Iran’s Holocaust Cartoon Show
— Faculty at a Catholic high school in Belgium said they were proud of a senior teacher who won an award and a cash prize at Iran’s controversial cartoon contest about the Holocaust. Luc Descheemaeker, who this summer retired from the Sint-Jozefs Institute high school in the city of Torhout, 60 miles west of Antwerp, accepted…
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Fast Forward REPORT: Traveling Zoo Set Up On Holocaust Execution Site In Ukraine
(JTA) — A city in northwestern Ukraine authorized the placing of a traveling zoo on the mass grave of thousands of Jewish Holocaust victims, a leader of the country’s Jewish community said. Eduard Dolinsky, the director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, wrote Monday on Facebook about the traveling zoo that was erected this summer in the…
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Fast Forward Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish Holocaust Hero, Executed in Soviet Prison, Diaries Reveal
— Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazi gas chambers, was executed in a Soviet prison, according to a KGB head’s diaries. The diaries of Ivan A. Serov, who ran the former Russian secret police and intelligence agency from 1954 to 1958, were discovered inside the walls of his second…
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Culture After the Holocaust, A Jewish State in Saxony
Judenstaat By Simone Zelitch Tor Books, 320 pages, $12.99 Counterfactual history has never been more popular in American culture. The success of Amazon Prime’s recent hit series “The Man in the High Castle” (based on Philip K. Dick’s famous novel about the Nazis winning World War II) and the Hulu series “11.22.63” (based on Stephen…
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Fast Forward Himmler’s Diary Discovered in Archive in Russia
The diary of Nazi SS leader Heinrich Himmler was discovered filed in an archive in Russia. The diary, actually a service calendar including dates, meetings and military decisions, was discovered earlier this year in the Russian Military Archive in Podolsk . It was filed under Dnewnik, which is Russian for diary, the Daily Mail reported….
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Community The Last Jews of Salzburg
Like many travelers with a purpose beyond simply sightseeing, I journeyed to Europe earlier this month with a specific set of expectations. Destination: Salzburg. Itinerary: A three-day United Nations conference at the city university. Objectives: Deliver a talk and meet others in my field. My agenda did not include getting swept up into the local…
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Community Walking Through Schindler’s List
Of course I have seen Schindler’s List, the 1993 Holocaust movie directed by Steven Spielberg. Who hasn’t? Well, my 18-year-old daughter, Esther. So, we huddled on the bed in our tiny hotel room in Amsterdam, next to one of the many canals, and watched it on our laptop computer. After being in Krakow, watching this…
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