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 Polish Home Where Jews Hid Will Be Museum
A private entrepreneur plans to establish a museum in a house in southeastern Poland in which Jews hid from the Nazis. The house, located on Tatarska Street in Przemysl, hid 13 members of the Diamant family during the Holocaust. Beginning in 1942, the orphaned Catholic sisters Stefania and Helena Podgorski, ages 16 and 9, hid…
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The Schmooze Nazi Occupation Meets Reality Television in New Czech Show
Just when you think reality television has reached peak absurdity levels, the trashy TV gods deliver something like this. Presenting “Holiday in the Protectorate,” a Czech show that requires a family to live for two-months under World War II-like conditions, Gestapo included. According to , the lucky three-generations will have to contend with actors playing…
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The Schmooze Helen Mirren To Be Honored By World Jewish Congress
All hail the Queen! The Weinstein Company has announced that will be honored by the World Jewish Congress for her role in “Woman in Gold.” In the film, Mirren plays Maria Altmann, an Austrian-American fighting to reclaim her family’s Gustav Klimt paintings – including the famous Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I – stolen by the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Wins Battle Over Pension Cut for Moving to Settlement
Following a protest by a Holocaust survivors’ group in Israel, the Dutch government reversed its decision to cut pension payments to a 90-year-old woman because she moved to a West Bank settlement. The reversal was announced Monday in a letter sent by Caspar Veldkamp, the Netherlands’ ambassador to the Israel, responding to a letter sent…
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Life A Jewish Woman’s Plea for Help Comes to Life — 76 Years Later
Shira Goldberg stepped across the stage at East Henderson High School in western North Carolina and presented a yellowed letter to Shani Lourie. The letter’s writer, a German woman seeking help in escaping the Nazis from an American man she believed was a relative, was Shira’s distant cousin. The 8-year-old Florida girl was entrusting this…
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News German Left Haunted by the Holocaust — Split Over Israel
Growing up in reunified Germany, Eva Meyer remembers being overwhelmed by the Holocaust studies that were part of each school year. Meyer and her classmates were assigned to read books about the Holocaust. They heard personal stories from Holocaust survivors. They had to write essays about the Holocaust, too. Learning so intensively about the horrors…
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News Warsaw Ghetto Memorial to Righteous Suffers New Setback as Design Is Tossed
A dispute over designs is the latest roadblock to hit a controversial Holocaust memorial planned for the site of the Warsaw Ghetto that would honor so so-called Righteous Gentiles who rescued Jews. In the latest twist on the hotly disputed project, the New York philanthropist who launched it has rejected the choice of plans made…
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Opinion If a Holocaust Survivor Can Forgive a 93-Year-Old Nazi, Should I?
More than half a century after the Holocaust, is it right — or even possible — to forgive? As the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and refugees, I find myself asking this question as I read about the recent trial of Oskar Gröning — aka “the accountant of Auschwitz” — a man who cannot easily be…
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