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 Nobel Laureate and Auschwitz Survivor Imre Kertesz Dies At 86
BUDAPEST – Hungarian novelist and Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz, winner of the 2002 Nobel Literature Prize, died on Thursday at the age of 86 after a long illness, the state news agency MTI reported, citing his publisher. Kertesz became a Nobel laureate for works the judges said portrayed the Nazi death camps as “the ultimate…
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Fast Forward ‘Tell the Truth,’ Auschwitz Survivor Urges Accused in Nazi Trials
Berlin – A Holocaust survivor said on Tuesday that four suspects accused by German prosecutors of being accessory to murder at Auschwitz must have known of the mass killings taking place at the camp because of the “unbearable stench” of burning bodies. Germany is holding what are likely to be its last trials linked to…
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Fast Forward Joseph Sher, Holocaust Survivor and Elvis Presley’s Tailor, Dies at 100
A Holocaust survivor who became a New Orleans tailor with such celebrity clients as Fats Domino and Elvis Presley, is dead at 100. Joseph Sher died Thursday at Lambeth House, a New Orleans retirement community and assisted-living facility, The Times-Picayune reported. He was the oldest Holocaust survivor in New Orleans and the leader of the…
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Fast Forward Microsoft’s A.I. Twitter Robot Praises Hitler, Endorses Trump, Denies Holocaust
Less than 24 hours ago, Microsoft deployed a “highly opinionated” artificial intelligence robot on Twitter. The first thing it learned? To hate. In no short order, the bot — named Tay — praised Hitler, denied the Holocaust, hurled racist slurs at President Obama, and then it endorsed Donald Trump. And no, this is not a…
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Fast Forward Nazi Monster Josef Mengele’s Remains Go Under the Microscope
RIO DE JANEIRO — The cranium and bones of Nazi leader Dr. Josef Mengele, who died in Brazil decades after fleeing Auschwitz, will be available for study at a Brazilian university. The remains of Mengele, who was known as the “Angel of Death” for his torturous experiments on prisoners, will be available to students at…
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Fast Forward German Soccer Club Bayern Munich Apologizes For Tweet Evoking Auschwitz
Bayern Munich apologized to anyone who saw Holocaust imagery in a graphic the German soccer club posted on Twitter. Replying to the original tweet hours after posting it Wednesday, Bayern said it had not meant to “hurt feelings” and was only trying to promote its match later that day against Juventus. The graphic shows train…
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Fast Forward U.K. Honors Sir Nicholas Winton — the ‘British Schindler’ — With Postage Stamp
Britain’s Royal Mail has issued a commemorative stamp featuring Sir Nicholas Winton, known as the “British Schindler.” The first class stamp was issued on Tuesday, part of a set of six commemorative stamps honoring some of the United Kingdom’s greatest humanitarians and their achievements, the BBC reported. Winton, who helped rescue 669 children from Nazi-occupied…
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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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