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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Fast Forward Is Branding Migrants a Shameful Throwback to Holocaust?
Jewish leaders criticized Czech police for marking numbers on the arms of more than 200 refugees, saying that it recalled the Holocaust. News reports that “dozens of refugees were literally branded as if they were cattle at the slaughterhouse, inevitably recalling the darkest period of contemporary history, are just the latest in a series of…
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The Schmooze Natalie Portman Thinks Jews Focus Too Much on The Holocaust
Do Jews focus too much on the Holocaust? Natalie Portman thinks so. The actress, who directed and stars in an adaptation of Amos Oz’s autobiography, told The Independent that the Jewish community needs to reassess the Holocaust’s place as the defining event in our, and broader society’s history. “I think a really big question the…
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News 74 Years After Terezin, This Survivor Is Still Drawing What She Sees
Helga Weiss-Hoskova, a short woman with closely cropped gray hair and sparkling blue eyes, stood in the doorway of her fourth-floor walkup in Prague. “I climb these stairs once or twice each day,” she said as my wife and I, out of breath, approached the fourth-floor landing. The 85-year-old artist and Holocaust survivor has received…
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The Schmooze Australian Doctor Uses Holocaust as Diet Analogy
Well, this is a new low. Dr. Ric Gordon, a popular medical expert for the Australian morning show “Today,” seems to think that Auschwitz was some sort of fat farm. Gordon recently compared the Holocaust to a diet — apparently the best example he could think of to explain the logic that if you eat less,…
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The Schmooze Crossfit Guru Does Handstand on Holocaust Memorial, Posts to Instagram
When Crossfit “guru” Dave Driskell travelled to Berlin, he decided to go visit the city’s iconic Holocaust memorial. He didn’t know what to expect — or that he probably shouldn’t pose on it and send an uplifting fitness message to his 70,000 followers. His caption on Instagram reads: “Hello Berlin, Germany. 15 hour layover. Checking the…
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The Schmooze Former Bond Girl Jane Seymour Explores Family’s Holocaust Past
She was born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg. But you probably know her as Jane Seymour. Turns out the actress and former Bond Girl is a proud member of the Tribe — with a storied family past. According to Seymour’s paternal grandfather, Lewin Frankenberg, left Poland for the United Kingdom in the late 1930s, leaving his two…
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Life The Nazi-Holocaust Survivor Romance Novel You Weren’t Waiting For
A few weeks ago in New York City, Romance Writers of America held their annual conference. The agenda included the RITA awards, the equivalent of the Oscars of the romance writing world, and one of those nominees, for “Best Inspirational Romance” and “Best First Novel,” was a book called “For Such a Time” by Kate…
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The Schmooze Christian Petzold Reflects on His Holocaust Revenge Film, ‘Phoenix’
Christian Petzold’s “Phoenix,” a beautifully crafted film noir, is one of two relatively recent Holocaust-related films that showcases revenge exacted with gusto by Jewish women characters — the other being Quentin Tarantino’s gory 2009 World War II action flick, ”Inglourious Basterds.” A fascinating, welcome addition to the post WWII cinema arena, “Phoenix” is an unfolding mystery…
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