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 Holocaust Architect Adolf Eichmann Begged Not to Hang, Letter Reveals
JERUSALEM – Israel made public on Wednesday a handwritten request for clemency by Adolf Eichmann, an architect of the Nazi Holocaust, who was executed by Israel in 1962 following a war crimes trial. In his letter to then-President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Eichmann said he was a “mere instrument” of leaders responsible for the killing of 6…
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Opinion How Britain Remembers the Holocaust, More Than 70 Years On
As the UK Deputy Ambassador in Warsaw from 2004 to 2008, I attended many events during my time in Poland to commemorate World War II. But one I will never forget was the 60th anniversary of the liberation at Auschwitz. In the middle of Polish winter, world leaders, including the UK Foreign Secretary and Prince…
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Fast Forward New Sickening Details on Nazi Medical Experiments Revealed
Newly discovered testimony provides brutal new details about Nazi medical experiments on concentration camp prisoners, including reportedly locking one man inside a glass cage with thousands of mosquitoes in order to infect him with malaria. An archivist recently stumbled upon an undated, three-page deposition submitted by a Jewish survivor of several concentration camps while cataloging…
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Fast Forward Germany’s Merkel Opens Holocaust Art Exhibit in Berlin
BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the biggest exhibition of Holocaust art outside Israel in Berlin on Monday, after pledging to take concerns about rising anti-Semitism seriously. The “Art from the Holocaust” show features 100 works from Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial center, which were created by Jewish inmates at concentration camps, labor…
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Fast Forward David Stoliar, Sole Survivor of the Torpedoed Struma, Remembered
David Stoliar, the only survivor of the Struma, which was carrying 800 Jews fleeing the Holocaust in Romania, died in 2014, but his death was not widely or nationally reported. Stoliar was on board the Struma, which was barred from entering then-Palestine, held in Turkey for several months, then set adrift without power and torpedoed…
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Fast Forward Trump-Promoted Twitter That ‘Gassed’ Sanders Now Pro Bernie — Not
That @WhiteGenocideTM Twitter that Donald Trump retweeted from? It’s now morphed into a mock “Bernie 4 Prez” feed. Trump retweeted a deprecating post about Jeb Bush last week from the Twitter, but critics quickly noted that by doing so he was promoting a site filled with anti-Semitic ramblings directed at Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders,…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Ceremony To Mark 71st Anniversary of Camp’s Liberation
WARSAW, Poland — President Andrzej Duda of Poland and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of Croatia are expected to attend the ceremony at the Auschwitz memorial marking the 71st anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation. Dozens of survivors and their relatives will also be on hand for Wednesday’s commemoration. Red Army troops liberated Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945…
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Fast Forward Polish Town Remembers Its Jewish Residents Murdered in Holocaust
WARSAW, Poland – A Polish town unveiled a monument to thousands of its Jews murdered in the Holocaust. The monument unveiled Friday in Suwalki is at the site of the northeastern town’s synagogue destroyed in 1956 after being severely damaged by the Germans during the Nazi occupation. Its inscription reads, in Polish, Hebrew and English:…
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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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