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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Opinion Mango Shirt Slammed as Attempt at ‘Nazi Chic’
Mango’s new shirt After Sears’s swastika ring and Zara’s concentration camp shirt comes another piece of fashion that has incensed the internet: The lightning-like black symbols on the women’s shirt ‘Rayo’ by Spanish fashion company Mango look suspiciously like the runic insignia of the Nazi SS units and the youth organization Jungvolk. “Why does Mango…
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Fast Forward ‘British Schindler’ Who Aided Kindertransport Wins Czech Highest Honor
A British man known as the British Oskar Schindler will receive the Czech Republic’s highest civilian honor. Sir Nicholas Winton, 105, saved 669 Czechoslovak children from the Nazis while serving as a British diplomat. The mission was known as the Czech Kindertransport. The saved children have more than 5,000 descendants. Winton is scheduled to receive…
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The Schmooze Hoops Star Sorry for Holocaust Memorial Selfie
Danny Green poses for selfie at Holocaust Memorial in Berlin/Facebook San Antonio Spurs star Danny Green went to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, where his team was playing an exhibition game. Nothing wrong with that. He took a selfie amid the stark granite reminders of the millions who died in the Shoah. Nothing really wrong…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Graduates High School at 86
(JTA) — A high school diploma may not be worth as much nowadays as it once was. But for one Holocaust survivor, it’s still extremely valuable. The Holocaust interrupted the high school education of Henry Friedman, a Poland native who now lives on Mercer Island. But this week, at 86, he will get an honorary…
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Culture Historic Holocaust Film ‘Night Will Fall’ Debuts at Last — Had Help From Hitchcock
A new film about a forgotten, long-shelved documentary chronicling the Allies’ discovery and liberation of the Nazi concentration camps is offering viewers a restored contemporaneous account of that seminal moment in history. The original, unfinished documentary has now, 70 years later, been reproduced and completed by the British Imperial War Museums. Titled “German Concentration Camps…
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Fast Forward Spanish Diplomat Honored as ‘Righteous’
Sebastian de Romero Radigales, a Spanish diplomat whose efforts saved hundreds of Jews in the Holocaust, was named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. His granddaughter Elena Colitto Castelli accepted the posthumous honor at a ceremony Tuesday at the Holocaust memorial and museum in Jerusalem. Among those on hand were Spain’s ambassador to Israel,…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Among World’s Top 10 Museum
Israel’s Holocaust museum and memorial, Yad Vashem, was ranked by the website TripAdvisor as one of the top ten museums in the world. Yad Vashem, located in Jerusalem, was ranked tenth out of 25 museums selected as part of TripAdvisor’s “Travelers’ Choice” awards, based upon online ratings and comments by tourists and travelers. It is…
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Fast Forward French Chief Rabbi Compares ISIS to Nazis
French Chief Rabbi Haim Korsia made an urgent plea to Europe to defend non-Muslims in the Middle East, whom he likened to Holocaust victims. Speaking Sunday at the Grand Synagogue in Paris at a commemoration for Holocaust victims, Korsia cited the Yazidis’ plight in Iraq as an example of a minority group in need of…
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