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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News Anne Frank and ‘Night’ may soon be required reading in Texas public schools. Is that good for the Jews?
The proposal underscores a complicated moment for Jewish literature in Texas schools
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Yiddish World A moving but problematic concert for Holocaust Remembrance Day
An Italian Jewish maestro breathes new life into Yiddish music from the Holocaust, but the composers’ messages got lost in the mix
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Fast Forward Vance omits mention of Jews from Holocaust Remembrance Day statement, incensing Jewish critics on both sides of the aisle
The vice president has a history of minimizing antisemitism on the right
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Fast Forward Mamdani visits Holocaust survivor at her apartment on Holocaust Remembrance Day
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has faced pushback from Jewish New Yorkers for his positions on Israel
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Culture A new exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a child survivor and lifelong skeptic of easy truths
'And That’s True Too' traces the New Yorker writer’s arc from Kindertransport to Manhattan, where she dazzled with her novels, short stories and children’s books
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Fast Forward On PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots,’ Jewish actor Lizzy Caplan discovers her family’s unknown Holocaust story
In this exclusive ‘Finding Your Roots’ clip, actor Lizzy Caplan learns about her mother’s ancestors
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Culture How yizkor books bring the sights, sounds, and even smells and tastes of lost Jewish shtetls back to life
After the Holocaust, survivors and emigrés documented the ways of life characteristic of their fallen hometowns
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Books He could have avoided persecution in Nazi Germany — he got bar mitzvahed instead
'Half-Jew — Full Life’ tells the story of Gerd “Pips” Phillipsohn's life before and after Hitler came to power.
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Fast Forward Chabad on high alert after false Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens war claims
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Opinion Marco Rubio invoked a medieval antisemitic trope in justifying war with Iran
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Culture How an Amish Mennonite school in Arkansas went viral with a song by an Orthodox Jew
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Fast Forward A suspect in the 1994 bombing of Buenos Aires’ AMIA Jewish center now leads Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
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Fast Forward Jewish groups ask Pentagon to stop Messianic chaplains from wearing Jewish insignia
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Fast Forward Lev Parnas, Jewish Trump ally turned critic, running for Congress as a Democrat
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Opinion The real reason for the US war with Iran may have nothing to do with Israel
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