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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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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Life Where Do Trigger Warnings Belong?
Thinkstock Trigger warnings in academia, the idea that professors should flag, in advance, potentially traumatizing content for students, are a subject of hot debate this week after a series of articles on the topic showed up big venues. Content that might provoke a trigger warning include rape, violence, and historical atrocities like lynchings, slavery, even…
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Fast Forward Prince Charles Tells Holocaust Survivor That Vladimir Putin ‘Same’ as Hitler
Russia criticized Britain’s Prince Charles on Thursday over reports that he likened President Vladimir Putin to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler for annexing part of Ukraine. “If these words were truly spoken, then without doubt, they do not reflect well on the future British monarch,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman told a news conference. “We view the…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitism No Longer Taboo in Hungary as Jobbik-Led Culture War Rages
(Reuters) — Budapest’s Jewish community is vibrant, visible and patriotic; and yet seven decades after the Holocaust, the taboo about expressing anti-Semitic views is breaking down among many fellow Hungarians. Some Jews and academics blame this on the far-right Jobbik party, which has come from nowhere to become the second most popular party as one…
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Culture When Auschwitz Was a Jewish Town
Of all the things and places to give an endearing Jewish name, Auschwitz would seem the most unlikely. Oshpitzin — which comes from the Aramaic word for guest, ushpizin, and is the name of a traditional Sukkot prayer that welcomes guests — was how Jews once referred to Oswiecim, the Polish town that would become…
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Fast Forward Romania Holocaust Center Opens in Old Elie Wiesel House
Romania’s first public Holocaust learning center has opened in the childhood home of Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel. The new Holocaust Cellar center is an addition to an existing museum about Wiesel’s life in his former home in Sighet, a town in the Transylvania region of Romania. Visitors to the center will be able to research…
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