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 Poland Pulls Plug on Probe Into Wartime Massacre of 70 Jews
The Institute of National Remembrance in Bialystok discontinued the investigation into the murder of at least 70 Jewish citizens in Wasosz in northeastern Poland in 1941. Prosecutors have not identified and additional perpetrators besides the two Polish men already sentenced for the act shortly after World War II. The murder in Wasosz occurred in July…
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Life The Messiness of Hoarding and Motherhood
“I come from a hot Yiddish mess of a family,” said Judy Batalion at a recent book talk in Boston sponsored by the Jewish Women’s Archive. That family, particularly Batalion’s unnamed mother, is front and center in her pitch perfect memoir, “White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood and the Mess in Between.” The physical…
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Fast Forward Polish ‘Righeous’ Get New Office — Thanks to Jewish Group
An organization promoting Holocaust commemoration in Central Europe pledged to provide new offices to an association of Poles who jeopardized their lives to save Jews during the Nazi genocide. Jonny Daniels, founder of the From the Depths group, on Sunday said his organization had decided to allocate an open-ended subsidy of approximately $15,000 annually for…
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Opinion Is Donald Trump Really a Hitler-Style Fascist?
Alfred Münzer, a Holocaust survivor, is nervous: Donald Trump’s increasingly vile campaign for president is becoming increasingly viable. “I am very worried about what he says. I am much more worried by how it’s received,” Münzer told me in a phone interview from his Washington, D.C., home, as voters in nearby Virginia went to the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Museum Collects Mementoes for 2043 Time Capsule
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking messages and personal artifacts from Holocaust survivors for a time capsule to be opened on the museum’s 50th anniversary in 2043. The capsule will be on display in the museum’s David and Fela Shapell Family Collections and Conservation Center in Bowie, Maryland, which is scheduled to be opened…
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The Schmooze Deborah Lipstadt Explains Why Holocaust Denial Shouldn’t Be a Crime
Famous Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt opposed criminalization of Holocaust denial in a debate at the Oxford Union Society last month, which is shown in the video below. Even after years of fighting a libel suit filed against her in 1996 by Holocaust denier David Irving, Lipstadt says she is not in favor of laws against…
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Fast Forward Lithuanian Jews Back Keeping Nazi Collaborators List Secret
The leader of Lithuania’s Jewish community supported a proposal to delay publishing the names of suspected Holocaust perpetrators out of concern for their families’ reputation and privacy. Faina Kukliansky, a former prosecutor and president of the Jewish Community of Lithuania, made this assertion following discussions in Lithuania on publishing a list of 1,000 names that…
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Fast Forward President Obama Spotlights Rescuers of Jews at Emotional Prayer Breakfast
President Barack Obama cited examples of Jews and those who rescued them in a prayer day message calling on Americans to overcome fear and welcome the stranger. Obama in remarks Thursday to the annual National Prayer Breakfast cited multiple examples of faith communities working together to bring relief to natural disaster zones, to care for…
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