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 Ohio Dedicates ‘Shattered Star’ Holocaust Memorial
The state of Ohio dedicated a Holocaust memorial on the Statehouse grounds in the state capital Columbus. The Ohio Holocaust & Liberators Memorial was dedicated Monday at a ceremony which drew 1,500 people including Holocaust survivors and former U.S. soldiers. The18-foot tall memorial, which resembles a shattered Star of David, was designed by Polish-born architect…
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Fast Forward London Man Who Gave Nazi Salute on Holocaust Day Is Banned From Jewish Neighborhood
A man who gave a Nazi salute and shouted “Heil Hitler” outside a kosher restaurant in London on Holocaust Remembrance Day was banned from the city district for one year. Miroslav Ondrus, 33, a Slovakian national, was barred by a London magistrate’s court from the NW11 district of London, which includes the highly Jewish populated…
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Fast Forward MSNBC Host Toure Sorry For Tweet About Holocaust Survivors
MSNBC host Toure Neblett apologized for a tweet in which he suggested that Jewish survivors of the Holocaust succeeded because they are white. “Late last week, I foolishly got involved in a twitter exchange regarding an article about reparations,” Toure tweeted on Tuesday afternoon in a series of three tweets. “It was a dumb idea…
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Opinion 6 Jewish Memories of Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou, who has died at 86, was a celebrated poet, author, and chronicler of the African-American experience. Angelou also had several memorable interactions with the Jewish community. Here are six Jewish memories of Maya: 1) Poignant Poetry In one of his final acts in office, President Bill Clinton appointed Angelou to the board of…
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Fast Forward Audi Admits Using 3,700 Concentration Camp Workers
A new report by German car company Audi shows that 3,700 concentration camp inmates were forced to work in its factories during World War II. Audi had previously acknowledged its role in exploiting forced labor, paying millions of dollars into a fund set up by the German government to compensate victims, according to the Daily…
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Opinion March of the Living Exploits — Like 9/11 Museum
March of the Living participants visit Auschwitz in 2009 / Yossi Selliger This year, I made the difficult decision not to join my high school classmates on March of the Living, an organized trip that takes students to Poland’s death camps and then on to Israel. But it wasn’t until I read Meg Bloom Glasser’s…
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Fast Forward Amsterdam Will Repay $1M in Fines Unjustly Imposed on Holocaust Victims
The City of Amsterdam earmarked $1.18 million from its budget to pay back fines it unjustly collected from Holocaust survivors. The allocation, which Mayor Eberhard van der Laan announced Thursday, is for fines that the city had imposed on hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors for properties they owned but for which they had failed to…
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Culture Germany’s Inferiority Complex and the Holocaust
● Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust By Götz Aly Metropolitan Books, 304 pages, $30 Early in his penetrating and provocative study of the roots of German anti-Semitism, “Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust,” Götz Aly quotes…
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