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 Polish MP Calls For End to Jewish World War II Property Restitution
Polish MP Slawomir Kopycinski called for the shuttering of the Regulatory Commission for Jewish Communities, a Polish body that restores property owned by Holocaust victims to its legal heirs. Kopycinski called the commission ”the fourth partition of Poland” in a Thursday press conference, alluding to previous partitions of the country in the 1700s and again…
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Opinion Lessons of Holocaust for 9/11 Museum
Imagine: It is 1958, 13 years after the end of the Holocaust that devastated much of a continent and buried six million Jews along with million of others. Imagine now trying to build a museum to memorialize what happened, educate visitors about the atrocities, and confront the legacy of European genocide in a global context….
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Opinion Is the Nigerian Schoolgirls Kidnapping Just Another ‘Never Again’ Moment?
I was 14, maybe 15, the first time I visited the then recently-opened Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. My classmates and I awaited our turn to receive our individual photo passport cards, each featuring the face and the name of a child who experienced the Holocaust. As we moved through the museum we would…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Education Center Opens in Elie Wiesel’s Romanian Hometown
A Holocaust education center will open in the childhood home of Nobel Prize-winning author and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel in the Romanian town of Sighet. The “Holocaust Cellar” is scheduled to open on May 18, as part of the Holocaust museum located in Wiesel’s pre-World War II home, which sits in the old Jewish Ghetto…
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Fast Forward Fake Holocaust Novelist Misha Defonseca Ordered To Pay $22M to Publisher
The author of a fraudulent Holocaust memoir has been ordered by a Massachusetts appeals court to pay back $22.5 million to her publisher. Misha Defonseca’s “Misha: A Memoir of the Holocaust Years,” published in 1997, claimed to tell of her experiences as a young Jewish girl fleeing the Nazis during World War II. The best-selling…
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News German-Jewish Émigré Turns 100 — and Still Hosts Weekly East Gatherings
Gaby Glueckselig’s 100th birthday, celebrated last week at the Leo Baeck Institute for German Jewish History, represented a convergence of New York past and present, German and Austrian culture, experience and youth. For 25 years, Glueckselig’s name has been almost synonymous with the Stammtisch, a weekly German-language gathering that was started by two refugees, Bavarian…
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Fast Forward Tennessee Lawmaker Stacey Campfield Apologizes for Holocaust Obamacare Link
A Tennessee state senator said he regrets a blog post that compares signups for Obamacare to Nazi “‘train rides’ for Jews in the 40s.” “Democrats bragging about the number of mandatory sign ups for Obamacare is like Germans bragging about the number of mandatory (sic) sign ups for “train rides” for Jews in the 40s,”…
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Fast Forward California School Scraps ‘Did Holocaust Happen’ Essay
A California school district said it will rewrite an eighth-grade assignment that asked students to argue whether or not the Holocaust happened. The writing assignment for students in the Rialto Unified School District asked students to write an argumentative essay about the Holocaust in which they must explain “whether or not you believe this was…
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