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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Culture The Story My Bubbe Told Us
I can’t remember the exact moment when I realized there was a lot more to my Bubbe’s story than a grandmother who baked amazing chocolate chip cookies and spent her winters in Florida. Her past wasn’t really discussed openly, and it wasn’t until after my bat mitzvah that I started to really understand what she…
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Fast Forward Austria Rejects Pleas for Jewish Historian in Holocaust Restitution Case
Austria’s president denied a request by the Anti-Defamation League to pardon a Jewish historian facing jail time for the omission of his aunt from his family’s application for Holocaust restitution. The denial came in a Sept. 8 letter sent by an employee of Austrian President Heinz Fischer’s office to Andrew Srulevitch, ADL’s assistant director for…
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Opinion What Shouldn’t We Compare to the Holocaust? A Refugee Crisis, for Starters.
Even if we can’t agree on anything else, there’s one cardinal fact that I think we can all get behind: This has been a summer of intense drama where the Middle East is concerned. Also a summer filled with evocations of the Holocaust. And they’re not unrelated. One reason for the intensity of the drama…
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The Schmooze Talking Polish Underground and World War II With Joshua Zimmerman
“I am always explaining — often to American Jews — that not all Poles were anti-Semites,” I told Joshua Zimmerman Yeshiva University Associate Professor of History and Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and Eastern European Jewish Studies” and author of the just published [Cambridge University Press] “The Polish Underground and the Jews…
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Opinion Haunted by Holocaust, Israel Ponders Whether to Crack Door Open to Refugees
The world has been affected by the images of desperate refugees fleeing Syria, but for Israelis, the crisis cuts close to home, not only because the conflict they are fleeing is right across the border, but because pictures of the crowds at the Keleti train station and the marches across Europe are playing on the…
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Fast Forward Dutch Holocaust Survivors Suffer Anti-Semitic Abuse in Robbery
An elderly Dutch Jewish couple said they were subjected to anti-Semitic abuse by robbers who broke into their Amsterdam home. Two men in their 40s or 50s, who the couple said had a Middle Eastern appearance but spoke fluent Dutch, presented themselves as police officers on Aug. 4 to Samuel and Diana Blog, Holocaust survivors…
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Fast Forward Is Branding Migrants a Shameful Throwback to Holocaust?
Jewish leaders criticized Czech police for marking numbers on the arms of more than 200 refugees, saying that it recalled the Holocaust. News reports that “dozens of refugees were literally branded as if they were cattle at the slaughterhouse, inevitably recalling the darkest period of contemporary history, are just the latest in a series of…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Thinks Jews Focus Too Much on The Holocaust
Do Jews focus too much on the Holocaust? Natalie Portman thinks so. The actress, who directed and stars in an adaptation of Amos Oz’s autobiography, told The Independent that the Jewish community needs to reassess the Holocaust’s place as the defining event in our, and broader society’s history. “I think a really big question the…
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Fast Forward Regina Spektor responds to pro-Palestinian protester at concert: ‘You’re just yelling at a Jew’
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