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 10,000 Join Hungary March of the Living
Thousands came out for the the March of the Living in Budapest, where World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder reminded the Hungarian government to speak out against anti-Semitism. Lauder also denounced the far-right Jobbik party, the second largest in the country, as “extremist” on Sunday at the annual commemoration of the Holocaust in the Hungarian…
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Fast Forward Hungary Vandals Damage Holocaust Exhibit
Vandals in Budapest defaced an exhibition about Holocaust survivors and, in a separate incident, painted a swastika opposite a synagogue. The incident involving the exhibition was reported on Sunday by the Hungarian Jewish community’s watchdog on anti-Semitism, the Action and Protection Foundation, or TEV. According to the report on TEV’s Facebook page, unknown individuals on…
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Fast Forward Florida Jewish Leaders Quit Holocaust Exhibit Over Controversial Anti-Gay Church Sponsor
Jewish leaders in Florida’s Brevard County said they have removed their support from a children’s Holocaust art exhibit over its sponsorship by a controversial church. Sixteen community leaders signed an open letter saying that they were pulling their backing for the Children’s Holocaust Museum exhibit set to open later this month at the Space Coast…
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Fast Forward Dutch Author Says His Aunt May Have Betrayed Anne Frank
A Dutch author published a book alleging that his aunt may have told Nazi authorities where to find Anne Frank and her family. The allegation appeared in a biography that was published Tuesday about the Dutch resistance activist Elisabeth “Bep” Voskuijl. The book, coauthored by Voskuijl’s son and the Flemish journalist Jeroen De Bruyn, explores…
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Culture The Life and Death of Jewish Lithuania
● The Clandestine History of the Kovno Jewish Ghetto Police Translated and edited by Samuel Schalkowsky Indiana University Press, 416 pages, $35 When we think of Lithuanian Jewry, we tend to think of Vilnius, “The Yerushalaim of Litte,” for its fame as a Jewish religious and intellectual center, its great scholars, and its contribution to…
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Culture Voices of Holocaust Survivors Resound in Words of Grandchildren
● God, Faith & Identity From the Ashes: Reflections of Children and Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors Edited by Menachem Rosensaft Jewish Lights Publishing, 352 pages, $25. Israel prize winner and this generation’s most gifted Talmudist, David Weiss Halivni, who was born in Sighet, Romania, a year and a day before his friend and fellow sighter,…
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Culture All That’s ‘Gold’ Does Not Always Glitter
If Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise” motivated young travelers to chat up random passengers on the train, make an impromptu stop in Vienna, spend the night wandering its streets, and finish off by having sex in the Stadtpark, Simon Curtis’s “Woman in Gold” might serve as inspiration for a different sort of tourist experience. Young American…
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Fast Forward Was Anne Frank Murdered Earlier Than Thought?
New research by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam shows that the teenage diarist died earlier than previously believed. The exact date of Anne Frank’s death from typhus in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is unknown. At the end of World War II the Red Cross officially concluded that she died sometime during March 1945. But new…
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Antisemitism Decoded Some people are learning the wrong lessons from Ahmed al Ahmed
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Fast Forward At White House Hanukkah party, Trump says Congress ‘is becoming antisemitic’
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Letters Australia’s Yiddish community is thriving, not reviving
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