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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Film & TV He saved dozens of kids in Auschwitz — and kept it a secret for nearly the rest of his life
The PBS documentary ‘The Last Twins’ tells the story of Erno Spiegel, who was targeted by Josef Mengele and protected the young people subjected to the Nazi doctor's experiments.
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Books A new book explores the vibrancy of pre-war Warsaw
'The Last Woman of Warsaw' follows two women as antisemitism begins to rise in Poland
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
Almost four decades after its premiere, 'Reunion' is a masterful look at how civil society disintegrates
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Looking Forward What I learned at a Holocaust survivors’ Purim party
The undisguised joy of dancing together
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Fast Forward Man who stabbed Spanish tourist at Berlin Holocaust memorial sentenced to 13 years in prison
The assailant was convicted on multiple charges, including attempted murder and attempted membership in a foreign terrorist organization
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Fast Forward Poland returns 91 Jewish objects to Greece, decades after they were stolen by the Nazis
This marks the first time Poland has repatriated cultural property held under its care that was illegally taken from another country
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Fast Forward The real Holocaust history behind ‘Papillon,’ the Oscar-nominated short about a star Jewish swimmer
A painterly animated film revives the memory of French Olympic hero Alfred Nakache, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz
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Fast Forward Documentary about Jews killed by their Polish neighbors after the Holocaust could be banned in Poland
A minister in the president’s office called the film 'historical anti-Polish manipulation'
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News A pioneering Reform synagogue makes way for a booming Iranian Jewish community
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News Brad Lander joins call to end U.S. aid to Israel, in quest to replace Rep. Dan Goldman
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Opinion Viktor Orbán may fall. Netanyahu should be next
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Film & TV Remembering Siskel and Ebert’s great debate: Mel Brooks or Woody Allen?
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News A Jewish gun club teams up with the NRA, in pursuit of self-defense
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Yiddish World How a young woman smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto
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Fast Forward At Harvard antisemitism conference, Trump official defends ‘list of Jews’ legal strategy in Penn case
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