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 Was the Holocaust Made Possible by Demise of European States?
In his 2010 book “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin,” historian Timothy Snyder examined the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single history. That book rethought some key assumptions of both Holocaust and Soviet history by noting similarities and interactions between the two regimes and the events…
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Fast Forward Israel Demands UN Boss Condemn Iran Holocaust Denial Cartoon Contest
JERUSALEM — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon must publicly condemn Iran’s Holocaust denial and a cartoon contest that promotes it, Israel’s Knesset speaker said. Yuli Edelstein in a letter dated Wednesday also called on Ban to take up the matter directly with Iran. The Holocaust denial cartoon contest is sponsored by the Tehran municipality, according…
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Fast Forward Jerry Lewis and Secret ‘Holocaust Clown’ Project Subject of BBC Documentary
The BBC has released a short documentary about Jewish comedian Jerry Lewis’ never-before-seen Holocaust film. “The Day the Clown Cried,” which Lewis wrote and directed at the height of his Hollywood career in 1971, has never been released. The BBC documentary released on Tuesday includes behind-the-scenes footage of production, stills from the film and narration…
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Books Protecting Anne Frank’s Voice — Even 7 Decades Later
When Anne Frank wrote in her diary to pass the time, she probably never even thought about copyright law or the sticky question of who would come to own her words. She died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 at the age of 15, but her father Otto survived and eventually was persuaded to…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Rabbi Claims Just 1 Million Jews Killed in Holocaust
A New York-based haredi Orthodox rabbi who has posted thousands of popular outreach lectures online said only about 1 million Jews died in the Holocaust rather than the historically established figure of 6 million. Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi in a video posted Tuesday on his YouTube channel cited high assimilation rates in Europe before World War…
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Life Celebrating My Bat Mitzvah With My Hoarder Mother
Montreal, 1989 “Is everyone ready?” I called from my room.One of my eyes was focused on the mirror as I checked out my creation — an all-white “Working Girl “power suit from Jacob Junior with shoulder pads, a pleated skirt, and a blue and white polka dot shirt that sported a medieval jester’s 6-inch collar,…
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Fast Forward Russian Rabbi Accuses Ukrainian President of Playing ‘Jewish Card’
A senior Russian rabbi accused the president of Ukraine of glossing over his country’s Holocaust record and lying about Russia’s treatment of Jews. Rabbi Boruch Gorin, spokesman for Rabbi Berel Lazar, one of Russia’s chief rabbis, made the accusation in an Op-Ed published Friday on the news site Jewish.ru following President Petro Poroshenko’s Dec. 22-24…
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Fast Forward College Class Wears Holocaust Yellow Stars To Protest Islamophobia
A University of San Diego professor and some of her students wore yellow star badges modeled after the ones Jews were forced to wear during the Holocaust to protest Islamophobia. Bahar Davary, an Iranian-American associate professor of theology and religious studies at the college, and her students began wearing the yellow stars with the word…
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