Holocaust

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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Should the Holocaust Get Preferential Treatment?

Courtesy of the website for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (JTA) — On the fourth floor of the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights, visitors will find a gallery called “Examining the Holocaust,” which is devoted entirely to the story and lessons of the Shoah. On the same floor, in a smaller, adjacent space,…

By Josh Tapper Sep 21, 2014 | 5 min read
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Rome May Kill Stalled Holocaust Museum

After years of delays city authorities may drop the idea of establishing a modern, $30 million Holocaust Museum in central Rome and instead install a smaller exhibit in a former shopping center in a Rome suburb. Plans were announced a decade ago to build a state-of-the-art Shoah Museum on the grounds of Villa Torlonia, wartime…

By JTA Sep 16, 2014 | < 1 min read
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Former Auschwitz Guard Charged With 300,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder

German prosecutors have charged a 93-year-old man with 300,000 counts of accessory to murder for his service as a Nazi SS guard at Auschwitz. Oskar Groening of Hannover, Germany, has acknowledged that he was a guard at Auschwitz but said he did not personally commit any of the atrocities, The Associated Press reported Monday. He…

By JTA Sep 15, 2014 | < 1 min read
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Jewish South Africa Publication Apologizes For Op-Ed Comparing Desmond Tutu to Hitler

A Jewish publication in South Africa apologized for an Op-Ed that compared Archbishop Desmond Tutu to Adolf Hitler. The online publication South African Jewish Report posted the apology Friday on its website and removed the opinion piece, written by Leon Reich, chairman of Likud South Africa. According to the Mail & Guardian newspaper, Reich in…

By JTA Sep 15, 2014 | 2 min read
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Monument to Jewish Industrialist Emil Kolben Unveiled in Prague

A plaque honoring Jewish industrialist Emil Kolben was erected in the Czech capital. Kolben, who died in the Holocaust, co-founded CKD, one of the most important industrial firms in the former Czechoslovakia. The monument located in the heart of Prague’s Vysocany district where Emil Kolben’s machinery empire was based, was unveiled by his granddaughter-in-law, Andree…

By JTA Sep 12, 2014 | 2 min read
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Jewish Leaders Meet With Hungarian Government After Almost a Year of Silence

Leaders of Jewish communities throughout Hungary met with representatives of the Hungarian government almost a year after the suspension of contacts between the sides. The more than four-hour discussion on Tuesday at the Hungarian Parliament building centered on eight topics of importance to the Jewish community, according to Janos Lazar, the chief negotiator representing the…

By JTA Sep 12, 2014 | 2 min read
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Anti-Semitic Incidents Near Doubled in France in 2014, Watchdog Says

A French Jewish watchdog recorded a near doubling of anti-Semitic incidents in France for the first seven months of 2014 compared to the same period last year. From Jan. 1 to July 31, SPCJ documented 527 anti-Semitic incidents compared to 276 in the same period of 2013, the security service reported in a statement Thursday….

By JTA Sep 11, 2014 | < 1 min read
Opinion
Taking the Banality Out of Evil

The idea that evil could be “banal” still shocks us. It’s much scarier to consider that genocide could be carried out unthinkingly by the most vacuous of bureaucrats and not by intrinsically bad people acting with bad intent. This new moral category was Hannah Arendt’s now infamous reaction to witnessing the 1961 trial of Adolf…

By Gal Beckerman Sep 11, 2014 | 5 min read

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Should the Holocaust Get Preferential Treatment?

Rome May Kill Stalled Holocaust Museum

Former Auschwitz Guard Charged With 300,000 Counts of Accessory to Murder

Jewish South Africa Publication Apologizes For Op-Ed Comparing Desmond Tutu to Hitler

Monument to Jewish Industrialist Emil Kolben Unveiled in Prague

Jewish Leaders Meet With Hungarian Government After Almost a Year of Silence

Anti-Semitic Incidents Near Doubled in France in 2014, Watchdog Says

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