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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The Schmooze Wolf Blitzer Remembers Holocaust Survivor Parents at Yad Vashem Dinner
“I feel as if I grew up with you” Wolf Blitzer, CNN’s lead political anchor told the 500 guests at The American and International Societies for Yad Vashem 70th Tribute Dinner at The Pierre. “My parents were Holocaust survivors. You were eyewitnesses to horrors and [those] who are still with us are very special people….
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Fast Forward Tibor Rubin, Holocaust Survivor, Korean War Hero, Dies at 86
Tibor Rubin, who survived two years in the Mauthausen concentration camp and then two-and-a-half years in a Chinese prisoner of war camp during the Korean war, died at age 86. Rubin died Saturday in Garden Grove, Calif. His death was attributed to natural causes. Born in Paszto, a Hungarian shtetl of 120 Jewish families, Rubin…
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Fast Forward Obama Taps Tom Bernstein for Second Term Chairing Holocaust Memorial
President Barack Obama named Tom Berstein, a major backer of his presidential campaigns, to a second five-year term chairing the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council. Bernstein is the president of Chelsea Piers, the Manhattan sports and entertainment complex, and the vice chairman of Human Rights First, a watchdog group. Bernstein co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team…
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News Holocaust Survivor Reunited With Polish ‘Big Sister’ — 70 Years Later
When Michael Hochberg met the woman who helped saved his life during the Holocaust, he embraced her and whispered in Polish, “What a great surprise,” and then called her a pretty flower. He handed her a bouquet of tangerine roses. She replied back in the same language: “I didn’t expect it would happen.” Hochberg, who…
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Life Broad Smiles and Enduring Spirit at Holocaust Survivors’ Beauty Contest
To the strains of Madonna’s “Vogue”, the 13 women with a combined age of about 1,050 strutted down the runway cautiously, hindered only slightly by walking sticks and the odd dodgy hip. The third annual Holocaust survivors’ beauty pageant, honoring women who lived through the concentration camps and death marches of Nazi Germany, was held…
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Fast Forward Alan Gross Says Holocaust Legacy Helped Him Survive Cuba Prison
American former prisoner Alan Gross said remembering how his family survived the Holocaust helped him through five years of imprisonment in Cuba, where he was held on espionage charges, according to interview excerpts released on Friday. Gross, 66, spoke out in what CBS News said was his first interview since his release in December 2014…
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Fast Forward 83-Year-Old Rita Berkowitz Wins Miss Holocaust Survivor Pageant
A Romania-born woman who immigrated to Israel won the third annual Miss Holocaust Survivors Beauty Pageant in Haifa. Rita Berkowitz, 83, was chosen among the 16 European natives who participated in the contest on Tuesday. She came to Israel in 1951. Hairdressers and makeup artists primped and pampered the contestants before they took to the…
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Culture Meet the World’s First 3-D Interactive Holocaust Survivor
Pinchas Gutter sits in a red chair in front of a black background. He hunches forward and rests his hands on his knees, his elbows bent. He wears a slate sweater vest with matching slacks. His skin tone looks just a bit too orange. He sits mostly still, but every so often he nods his…
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