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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Culture Did Dismantling of States Make the Worst of the Holocaust a Reality?
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning By Timothy Snyder Tim Duggan Books, 462 pages, $30 In two generations, we have witnessed a massive shift in our attitude toward the Holocaust: from regarding it as incomprehensible, defying human understanding, to trying to construct rigorous, often competing historical explanations for its causes and contours. There…
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Fast Forward Chicago TV Station Posts Nazi Yellow Badge for Yom Kippur Story
A Chicago news station used a graphic of a yellow badge, like those the Nazis forced Jews to wear during the Holocaust, to illustrate its report on Yom Kippur. WGN-TV aired the report on Tuesday night, hours into the Jewish Day of Atonement. The badge — shaped like the Star of David and featuring the…
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Culture The Story My Bubbe Told Us
I can’t remember the exact moment when I realized there was a lot more to my Bubbe’s story than a grandmother who baked amazing chocolate chip cookies and spent her winters in Florida. Her past wasn’t really discussed openly, and it wasn’t until after my bat mitzvah that I started to really understand what she…
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Fast Forward Austria Rejects Pleas for Jewish Historian in Holocaust Restitution Case
Austria’s president denied a request by the Anti-Defamation League to pardon a Jewish historian facing jail time for the omission of his aunt from his family’s application for Holocaust restitution. The denial came in a Sept. 8 letter sent by an employee of Austrian President Heinz Fischer’s office to Andrew Srulevitch, ADL’s assistant director for…
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Opinion What Shouldn’t We Compare to the Holocaust? A Refugee Crisis, for Starters.
Even if we can’t agree on anything else, there’s one cardinal fact that I think we can all get behind: This has been a summer of intense drama where the Middle East is concerned. Also a summer filled with evocations of the Holocaust. And they’re not unrelated. One reason for the intensity of the drama…
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The Schmooze Talking Polish Underground and World War II With Joshua Zimmerman
“I am always explaining — often to American Jews — that not all Poles were anti-Semites,” I told Joshua Zimmerman Yeshiva University Associate Professor of History and Eli and Diana Zborowski Professorial Chair in Holocaust Studies and Eastern European Jewish Studies” and author of the just published [Cambridge University Press] “The Polish Underground and the Jews…
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Opinion Haunted by Holocaust, Israel Ponders Whether to Crack Door Open to Refugees
The world has been affected by the images of desperate refugees fleeing Syria, but for Israelis, the crisis cuts close to home, not only because the conflict they are fleeing is right across the border, but because pictures of the crowds at the Keleti train station and the marches across Europe are playing on the…
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Fast Forward Dutch Holocaust Survivors Suffer Anti-Semitic Abuse in Robbery
An elderly Dutch Jewish couple said they were subjected to anti-Semitic abuse by robbers who broke into their Amsterdam home. Two men in their 40s or 50s, who the couple said had a Middle Eastern appearance but spoke fluent Dutch, presented themselves as police officers on Aug. 4 to Samuel and Diana Blog, Holocaust survivors…
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