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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Looking Forward Stumbling across Jewish history in a vintage store
Abram Krol, a Polish-Jewish artist, explored his experience of Judaism and the Holocaust in his art
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Yiddish World How a young woman smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto
Vladka Meed’s memoir ‘On Both Sides of the Wall’ challenges the myth of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Far-right Polish lawmaker draws outrage after calling Israel the ‘new Third Reich’
Konrad Berkowicz held up a modified Israeli flag that replaced the Star of David with a blue swastika during Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Fast Forward Congress removes deadline for Holocaust-looted art claims, setting stage for more restitution battles
A 2016 law required all claims to be made by the end of this year
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Culture A chance for the descendants of Holocaust victims to reclaim a piece of the past
The Center for Jewish History's 'Histories and Mysteries' project seeks to solve Nazi-era cold cases
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Music In Elie Wiesel’s latter years, he and I discussed the effects of the Holocaust. Those conversations are now an opera.
'The Dialogue of Memories,' based on conversations between Wiesel and Howard Reich premieres next month in Seattle
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Fast Forward South Korean president compares IDF actions to the Holocaust, drawing Israel condemnation
The Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote that South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's comments were "unacceptable and warrant strong condemnation."
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian activists are banned from Buchenwald, where survivors vowed to fight for peace
An oath made by 21,000 survivors of the Nazi camp has been reinterpreted ever since it was uttered
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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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News Protesters picket Manhattan synagogue over Israel real estate sale, testing Mamdani and new law
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Opinion I’m an Orthodox student in NYC. I’m grateful Mamdani vetoed the school buffer bill
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Film & TV Is this Apple TV thriller hasbara — or societal critique?
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Fast Forward Israeli man indicted in attack on Catholic nun in Jerusalem’s Old City
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Fast Forward Jewish real estate magnate Steven Roth likens Mamdani’s ‘tax the rich’ rhetoric to ‘from the river to the sea’