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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Israel News Holocaust Survivors Go Hungry as Israel Court Battle Locks Up Cash
Rachela Segal and her husband, Strul Segal, elderly Holocaust survivors living outside Tel Aviv, haven’t eaten chicken or fruit for weeks. At the market, they now even find it hard to afford to buy vegetables. “So I buy less, and Grade B. I go to buy vegetables, and 100 shekels flies,” Rachela Segal said. For…
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Forward 50 2015 Dustin Fleischer
Twenty-six-year-old box-er Dustin Fleischer walks into every match wearing tiger-striped trunks blazoned with a gold Star of David. Known as “The White Tiger,” Fleischer, the grandson of Holocaust survivor Bernard Fleischer, has wholeheartedly incorporated his grandfather’s story into his own career. Speaking to The Jerusalem Post in September, Fleischer said, “My quest is to become…
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The Schmooze Rachel Weisz to Play Deborah Lipstadt in Holocaust Movie ‘Denial’
British actress Rachel Weisz has been tapped to play Deborah E. Lipstadt in “Denial,” a biopic based on Lipstadt’s courtroom drama with David Irving, who sued her for libel when she accused him of being a Holocaust denier. Adapted for screen from Lipstadt’s book, the North American rights to the movie were bought by Bleecker…
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Art Can the Museum of Jewish Heritage Survive?
The Museum of Jewish Heritage is located at the tip of Manhattan, in Battery Park, nestled beside a quaint garden with panoramic views of the Statue of Liberty. Offering three floors of teachings on Jewish life, with objects culled over the past century, the museum aims to educate viewers about Jewish life before, during and…
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The Schmooze Nathan Fielder’s Holocaust Awareness Windbreakers Are a Hit With Celebs
Sometimes things that start as jokes grow to be legitimate ventures. Cough, Trump, cough. Same can be said of , comedian Nathan Fielder’s new outerwear company the proceeds of which go toward Holocaust awareness. No, we’re not joking. And neither are the celebrities that have taken a real liking to the quality of Summit Ice…
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The Schmooze My First Halloween After Escaping the Nazis
My mother and I arrived in Montreal, Canada in September 1941 following a death-defying escape that took us from bombed-out German-occupied Warsaw in the winter of 1940 to surviving a Nazi firing squad, to Lithuania’s Vilno (which in June 1940 was occupied by the Soviets). Then a 12-14-day Trans-Siberian train ride to Vladivostok and the…
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News Why Does Ben Carson Keep Talking About the Nazis?
Ben Carson, the flavor du jour in Republican politics, may be challenging Donald Trump’s status as front-runner in the GOP’s primary race. But the pediatric neurosurgeon-turned-would-be-president is far from the kind of candidate that many mainstream Republicans, including many Jews, have come to know. Alongside his classic conservatism on social and family issues, Carson has…
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Fast Forward Ben Carson Claims Rabbis Back his Holocaust Imagery in Gun Control Debate
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson defended his use of Holocaust imagery in the gun control debate, saying even some rabbis backed his assertions. Appearing Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Carson reiterated his claim that gun control in Germany that began in the late 1930s was a factor enabling the Nazis to perpetrate genocide against…
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