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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Culture ‘Ida’ Revisits Poland in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Pawel Pawlikowski left Poland at the age of 14, but his childhood memories of his homeland never left him. It’s no surprise then that “Ida,” a stunning portrait of two very different women whose lives intersect in 1960s Poland, is the director’s most assured and confident narrative feature yet. The film takes place in the…
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Fast Forward ‘Stumbling Blocks’ Cobblestone Memorials to Murdered Jews Spread in Berlin
(Reuters) — Veronika Houboi watched as a man in a cowboy hat and clogs wielded a sledge hammer to smash up and remove a dozen small cobblestones from a Berlin pavement. He quickly filled the resulting hole with two identical blocks of concrete capped with inscribed square brass plates. The blocks, called “Stolpersteine” or “stumbling…
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Fast Forward Dutch Activists Plan To Mark ‘Shadow’ Holocaust of Palestinians
A Dutch Muslim group is planning to commemorate “the ethnic cleansing of Palestine” on Holland’s memorial day for victims of Nazism. The Platform Bewust Moslim group, whose name means “Platform Aware Muslim,” is planning to hold the ceremony on May 4 in Hilversum near Amsterdam under the banner ”Palestine, the Shadow Holocaust,” the Jewish television…
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Opinion How Young Is Too Young for Shoah Education?
Getty Images Israel’s Education Ministry has left Israeli parents asking how young is too young when it comes to Holocaust education. Yesterday, on the Israeli Holocaust memorial day, Yom Hashoah, kindergartens began following a new government directive to teach the Holocaust. But is this really the right decision? First, it’s not just that every parent…
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Fast Forward Silvio Berlusconi Insists He Is Friend of Jews
Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi reiterated his claim to be a friend of the Jewish people and Israel and said it was “surreal” to call him anti-German. His assertions, made in a statement posted Monday on the website of his Forza Italia party, came in the wake of international outrage over remarks that seemed to…
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Fast Forward 10,000 Young Jews Mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at Auschwitz
Some 10,000 young Jews from around the world participated in the 23rd March of the Living at Auschwitz. The march took place on Monday, Holocaust Remembrance Day, at the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp. A large group of Polish youth also marched from the gate bearing the “Arbeit macht frei” sign — meaning…
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Life The Women Who Warned Their Families
Getty Images At one point in the documentary “No Place on Earth,” Saul Stermer, now 93, who, with his family, spent 511 days hiding in two Ukrainian caves and escaped the Holocaust, smiles and says, “What a mother!” No wonder. His mother, Esther Stermer, who was 75 years old in 1942 when the Nazis came…
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The Schmooze Mengele: Handsome Psychopath in ‘The German Doctor’
In documentaries and live testimonials, survivors of Dr. Joseph Mengele’s “Right [life]-Left [death]” selection at Auschwitz, remember him as exceptionally handsome. And so is Spanish actor Alex Brendemuhl, who eerily and seductively portrays the toxic physician in Lucia Puenzo’s film “The German Doctor.” An uncanny Mengele Dopplelganger, Brendemuhl — a Spanish actor working in Germany…
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