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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The Schmooze Holocaust Survivor Belts Out National Anthem at Detroit Tigers Game
— A Holocaust survivor sang the national anthem before a Major League Baseball Game between the Detroit Tigers and Tampa Bay. Hermina Hirsch, 89, performed the national anthem on Saturday at Comerica Park in Detroit, fulfilling a long-time dream. Hirsch told local television station WWJ in an interview in April in which she called on…
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Fast Forward 2 Brazilian Senators Compare Holocaust to Country’s Political Crisis
RIO DE JANEIRO — Two leftist Brazilian senators compared Nazi Germany and the Holocaust to Brazil’s political environment in light of President Dilma Rousseff’s suspension as part of an ongoing impeachment process. “In times of crisis, the Jewish people are historically designated as ‘guilty’ for the evil that does not concern it. And history is…
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News Ernest Michel, the Jew Who Gave Up Scoop of a Lifetime by Walking Out on Goering
The date of Ernest Michel’s death was fitting, somehow. A Holocaust survivor and former executive vice president of UJA-Federation of New York from 1970-1989, Michel died at home on May 7, in the week between Yom Hashoah and Yom Ha’atzmaut. Michel was a Jewish communal executive for more than 60 years when such work was…
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Fast Forward Romania Passes Holocaust Restitution Law, as 40,000 Claims Not Yet Processed
Legislation making it easier for Holocaust survivors to press restitution claims passed in Romania’s Parliament on Tuesday. The law prioritizes the processing of claims belonging to Holocaust survivors, the World Jewish Restitution Organization, or WJRO, wrote in a statement applauding the legislation . Claimants who filed before 2003 have been waiting more than a decade…
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Fast Forward London’s Muslim Mayor Attends Holocaust Commemoration as First Act
— The newly elected mayor of London, the first Muslim to hold the position, attended a community program commemorating the Holocaust as his first official public engagement. Sadiq Khan of the Labour Party, who was elected Thursday, joined thousands of members of the Jewish community and its supporters for the Yom Hashoah program on Sunday…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Slams General for ‘Outrageous’ Criticism of Israel on Holocaust Day
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed remarks made last week by the Israel Defense Forces’ deputy chief of staff in which he appeared to compare Israel and its military to the rise of Nazism in Germany. “The remarks are fundamentally incorrect. They should not have been made at any time much less now. They do…
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Opinion Was This Top Israeli General Right To Denounce Jewish Extremism on Holocaust Day?
What on earth could have possessed the second-in-command of Israel’s armed forces to kick off Yom Hashoah, the national Holocaust remembrance day, with a May 4 speech likening Israel today to Germany on the eve of World War II? There are two possible answers. As it happens, one is correct and the other isn’t. On…
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Fast Forward Penny Pritzker Says ‘Fear of the Other’ Rising in Holocaust Remembrance Message
WASHINGTON — A top Jewish Obama administration official decried the rise of “the fear of the other” in the United States, marking Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah. “I do not think a Holocaust is happening in America, but I do worry about what is happening when we betray the principle of inclusion,” Penny Pritzker,…
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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