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 Shanghai To Preserve Memory of Jewish Refugee Neighborhood
Shanghai is applying to have the neighborhood that sheltered Jewish refugees during World War II added to the UNESCO Memory of the World Register. Some 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled the Nazis lived in Shanghai, in the Tilanqiao area of Hongkou District, according to Xinhua news service. The Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum is working with…
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The Schmooze ‘The Simpsons’ Go to Auschwitz
Alexsandro Palombo Oh wow. I scrolled through the pictures I had just received in an email. I looked at them again. And again. The subject line, I realized, went straight to the point: “The Simpsons go to Auschwitz” — a series of drawings by the controversial Italian artist Alexsandro Palombo, depicting the popular yellow cartoon…
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Fast Forward Lithuanian Jews Hold Holocaust Commemoration Events With ‘Anti-Semitic’ Group
The Jewish Community of Lithuania defended its decision to cooperate during Holocaust commemorations with a state-funded institution which is accused of hosting anti-Semitic exhibitions. The defense came in a statement posted Monday on the community’s website. It is a response to a letter that Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Israel office of the Simon…
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Fast Forward 93-Year-Old Woman Under Investigation For Role as SS Guard
A 93-year-old woman in Hamburg is under investigation for her role as an SS guard during a Nazi death march. The investigation of Hilde Michnia was announced Monday by the Hamburg prosecutors’ office. Also Monday, prosecutors in the city of Luneburg said they will try former Waffen-SS member Oskar Groening, 93, in April for his…
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Fast Forward Italy President Calls For Unity Against Terror During Visit at Nazi Massacre Site
Sergio Mattarella, the new president of Italy, at a visit to the site of a Nazi massacre called for international unity in the fight against terrorism. On Sunday, a day after he was elected by the Italian Parliament, Mattarella made his remarks at the Ardeatine Caves, where German occupation troops killed 335 people in March…
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Fast Forward Polish Strength Athletes Partner With Group Moving Jewish Tombstones
A Polish federation of strength athletes announced its partnership with an organization whose work includes moving and preserving Jewish headstones. The cooperation between the From the Depths commemoration group and the Polish Strongman Federation began last year, when two of the sport club’s athletes helped move two headstones from the garden of a resident of…
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Fast Forward Richard von Weizsaecker, Who Challenged German Attitudes About the Holocaust, Dies
Former president Richard von Weizsaecker, who challenged German attitudes about the Holocaust by arguing that the country had been liberated by the Nazi defeat in 1945, died on Saturday at the age of 94, the current president’s office said. A member of one of Germany’s most distinguished aristocratic families, von Weizsaecker also presided over the…
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Opinion When ‘Let My People Go’ Tugged at World’s Heart
It’s not necessarily how you want to launch your new teaching career, but hey, stuff happens. Facing my first class, I stood by the desk, looked at the students and wept. The course, “Israel and Its Neighbors,” focuses on political and military aspects of the Middle East conflict. I had decided to start things off…
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