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 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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Fast Forward Two Nazi-Looted Paintings Will Be Returned to Owner’s Heirs
Two paintings confiscated by the Nazis from their Jewish owners will be returned to their heirs in separate restitution deals. On Tuesday, the Commission for Looted Art in Europe and Art Recovery International announced that the oil painting “Portrait of a Gentleman” by El Greco had been returned to the heirs of Viennese industrialist Julius…
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Fast Forward Meet Ruth Porat, Google’s New Jewish CFO
(JTA) – To the business press, the symbolism of Ruth Porat’s move from her position as chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley to her newly announced perch as Google’s CFO of the future couldn’t be more obvious — it represents a shift in power from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. And there’s no question that…
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Fast Forward Adolf Hitler Painting to Be Auctioned, Asking Price $30,000
A Los Angeles gallery is auctioning a painting by Adolf Hitler, with an initial asking price of $30,000. Hitler’s floral still life, painted in 1912 before he entered politics, will be auctioned on Thursday by the Nate D. Sanders gallery. As a teenager and young man, Hitler unsuccessfully pursued an art career and was twice…
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Fast Forward Nazi Refuge Discovered By Archeologists in Argentina
A team of archeologists and researchers discovered what they believe was a refuge for Nazis in an Argentinian forest, near the border with Paraguay. It is believed that the Nazis prepared the hideout during the first half of the 1940s as a place to flee to should World War II not go in their favor,…
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Fast Forward Buddy Elias, Anne Frank Cousin, Dies at 89
Buddy Elias, a former president of the Anne Frank Fonds in Basel and a cousin of the teenage diarist from Amsterdam, has died. Elias, an actor who headed the charity named after his cousin, died Monday shortly before his 90th birthday at his home in Basel, according to Tachles, the Swiss Jewish newspaper. “For decades,…
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Fast Forward Greek Jews Mark 72 Years Since Thessaloniki Round-Ups
The Greek city of Thessaloniki remembered its nearly 50,000 Jews sent to Nazi death camps during World War II. A memorial marking the 72nd anniversary of the roundup and deportation of Thessaloniki Jews was held Saturday. Participants placed flowers on train tracks where the Jews were taken away in cattle cars headed for Auschwitz-Birkenau, The…
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Culture How Man Ray Drew on Math, Shakespeare — and Shoah
From 1934 to 1935, at Paris’s Institut Henri Poincaré, surrealist artist Man Ray photographed dusty mathematical models, which he said he found baffling. But the Philadelphia native, born Emmanuel Radnitzky, had to abandon the photos when he fled the Nazis for Hollywood. In 1946, he returned to Paris and retrieved the photos; two years later,…
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Yiddish דרײַסיק יאָר זינט איך בין געוואָרן אַ ייִדישער איבערזעצערLooking back on my 30 years as a Yiddish translator
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Opinion Should we be comparing ICE agents to Hitler’s ‘Brownshirts?’
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Holy Ground A Millennial rabbi built a synagogue where others have closed. Her maverick ideas are becoming a model.
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