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 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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Fast Forward Obama Calls for Solidarity with European Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day
WASHINGTON — In his Holocaust Remembrance Day message, President Barack Obama called for solidarity with Jews facing anti-Semitism in Europe and on campuses. “Today, and every day, we stand in solidarity with the Jewish community both at home and abroad,” Obama said in his statement released Wednesday afternoon, on the eve of commemorations. “We stand…
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Fast Forward Israeli General Warns of Nazi-Like Jewish Extremists in Holocaust Remembrance Speech
Israel’s deputy military chief suggested in a Holocaust memorial speech that there were signs of Nazi-like behavior in Israeli society, drawing condemnation from two cabinet ministers on Thursday before he backtracked on the remarks. Major-General Yair Golan’s speech, at a ceremony on Wednesday, would have touched a nerve at any time in a nation that…
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Life A Holocaust Survivor Dies — and a Secret Child Is Revealed
One week after my 85-year-old grandmother died, I learned that she had abandoned her first child and kept her son a secret for decades. A senior in college, I was jarred by the news. I’d spent nearly every day with Grandma Daisy as a kid growing up in Connecticut. While my parents worked, she sang…
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Fast Forward U.S. Holocaust Museum Says Iranian Authorities Back Holocaust Cartoon Event
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum challenged a claim by the Iranian foreign minister that Iranian government authorities had nothing to do with a Holocaust cartoon contest. “The organizations associated with the contest are sponsored or supported by government entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Tehran Municipality, and the Ministry of…
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News Israeli Artist’s Agreement To Honor Righteous Gentiles in Warsaw Ghetto Sparks Furor
An Israeli sculptor’s acceptance of a commission to design a Warsaw Ghetto memorial to non-Jewish Poles who saved Jews during the Holocaust has reignited a furor over the project. Opponents had been trying to persuade Tel Aviv sculptor Danny Karavan to turn down the commission. But on April 12 Karavan wrote critics of the project,…
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