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 She managed a university Holocaust center. Now she says incivility on Israel drove her to a Catholic school.
An administrator at Clark University in Massachusetts quits after hecklers protest her participation in a program featuring an Israeli reservist
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Culture Could this be the most meaningful Holocaust memorial in New York?
In Riverside Park, a stone meant to be a placeholder for a grander memorial has become an unlikely gathering place for Bundist Holocaust survivors and their descendants
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Yiddish World How Jewish refugees managed, against all odds, to make a Seder in 1941 in Kobe, Japan
In her diary, the actress Shoshana Kahan described how difficult it was to find eggs to make the matzah balls
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Fast Forward A Queens-based Holocaust survivor remembers her real-life rescuer played by Anthony Hopkins in ‘One Life’
Hanna Slome of Flushing, 99, was one of 669 Czech children sent to Britain thanks to Sir Nicholas Winton
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Fast Forward Germany to give Holocaust survivors in Israel an extra $238 each because of the war
About half of the world’s remaining Holocaust survivors live in Israel
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Fast Forward Nassau County’s Jewish executive calls on Democratic leader to quit for invoking Nazis
The Democratic leader of the county legislature said she was conveying a comparison made by one of many constituents who have expressed fears over a plan to enlist provisional deputy sheriffs
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Culture Jewish comedian Lena Dunham discovers her family’s Holocaust story on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’
Dunham’s great-great-grandmother Regina came to America as a teenager but left behind at least 11 siblings in Europe
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Fast Forward Amsterdam, atoning role in delivering Jews to the Nazis, pledges 100,000€ and memorials at tram stops
Amsterdam's public transit agency "would now like to express its sincere and sincere regret,” the city said in a statement
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News As young Jews move away from Israel, Jewish leaders are reluctant to change their approach
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