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 Germany and Claims Conference Announce $250M Fund for Child Holocaust Survivors
Germany and the Claims Conference are establishing a $250 million fund for child survivors of the Holocaust. The fund will provide one-time payouts of approximately $3,280 (2,500 euros) to Jews born in 1928 or later who spent at least six months in Nazi concentration camps, in ghettos, in hiding or living under a false identity…
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Fast Forward Shanghai Unveils Memorial to 13,700 Jewish Refugees
A memorial to the more than 13,700 Jews who fled Europe to safety in Shanghai during the Holocaust was unveiled at the Shanghai Jewish Refugees Museum. The memorial was unveiled Tuesday in a public ceremony, according to local news reports. It includes a statue of six Jewish refugees, symbolizing the 6 million Jews killed by…
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The Schmooze Fleeting Jewish Fragments In ‘The Notebook’
To my knowledge, there seem to be only two Hungarian films that address the plight of the country’s Jews during the Holocaust. One is the 1983 gem “Revolt of Job.” Now, there’s the puzzling macabre “The Notebook” (“Le Grand Cahier”) which hints at Hungarian Jews’— one scene shows the Jewish population of a small rural town…
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Fast Forward Amulet Created By Son For His Mother in Lodz Ghetto Recovered
The existence of an amulet created in the Lodz Ghetto by a son for his mother was recently discovered. “With love to Mom, from Avram. Lodz Ghetto. March, 1943,” reads the inscription on the amulet, made from two old coins. The son apparently created the amulet for his mother so she would not forget him…
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Fast Forward Nazi ‘Euthanasia’ Victims Commemorated With New Berlin Memorial
Some 300,000 people with physical or mental disabilities who were killed under Nazi Germany’s “euthanasia” program because their lives were deemed unworthy were commemorated on Tuesday with the opening of a memorial in Berlin. Relatives of the victims joined Mayor Klaus Wowereit and members of the public to lay wreaths and white roses in front…
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News In Chicago, Poles and Jews Come Together for Lodz
On paper, Chicago seems like the ideal venue for a relationship to flourish between American Jews and Polish Americans. The city has the second-largest Polish population in the world (after Warsaw) and a sizable Jewish community of more than 300,000. But relations over the years between the two communities have been “like two ships passing…
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Opinion Moral Emptiness of Holocaust Survivors Who Took on Israel
Given Hitler’s voluminous rants about Jews, it is not surprising that one aspect of his obsession is less known: the pleasure he took in the spectacle of Jews deriding and defaming other Jews. Hans Frank, one of Hitler’s top aides, quotes him as saying: “I am an innocent lamb compared to revelations by Jews about…
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The Schmooze Zara Pulls Striped ‘Holocaust’ Shirt
In worst idea ever, Zara sells shirt similar to that of Nazi camp inmates. On Israeli site too http://t.co/Kqs3PfXq31 pic.twitter.com/PRuEfn6Wsr — Oren Kessler (@OrenKessler) August 27, 2014 The international clothing chain Zara has apologized for offering for sale a blue and white striped shirt with a six –pointed yellow star on the chest. The shirt,…
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