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 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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Fast Forward Holocaust Deniers in Russia Now Face Five Years in Prison
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday making the denial of Nazi crimes and distortion of the Soviet Union’s role in the World War Two a criminal offence punishable by up to five years in jail. The law, described by critics as an attempt to curb freedom of expression to appease conservative Russians,…
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Fast Forward Tennessee’s Stacey Campfield Slammed for Comparing Obamacare to Holocaust
Republican Tennessee State Senator Stacey Campfield is under fire for comparing Obamacare to the Holocaust. Democrats and Republicans alike piled on the lawmaker, who wrote that mandatory health coverage is akin to being sent to a concentration camp. National Jewish Democratic Council Executive Director Rabbi Jack Moline said Campfield’s invoking the Holocaust “ends serious consideration…
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Opinion Now Even Winnipeg Disinvites Speakers Over Israel Politics
Getty Images The struggle over Israel in the Jewish community is heating up in Winnipeg, Canada. David Barnard, the President of the University of Manitoba — the city’s largest university — has been publicly un-invited to speak at one of the larger shuls in the city, Shaarey Zedek. The president was to have spoken at…
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Culture What If World War I Had Never Happened?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I By Richard Ned Lebow Palgrave Macmillan, 256 pages, $27 In the introduction to his new book, “Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I,” Richard Ned Lebow discloses a poignant personal reason for his interest in counterfactual history. The professor of international political…
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Fast Forward Czech Court Says No to Button Factory Holocaust Restitution Claim
The Czech Republic’s highest court rejected the restitution claim of descendants of a Jew whose button factory had been nationalized. The Constitutional Court published its ruling on the factory of Zikmund Waldes on Friday, the Associated Press reported. The ruling confirmed a 2010 verdict, which overturned a 2009 decision by the Supreme Court that found…
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Opinion Why Mahmoud Abbas Holocaust Declaration Matters
In late April, I met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his office in Ramallah. Responding to my suggestion that he address the Jewish people on Yom HaShoah, he stated emphatically that he considers the Holocaust to be “the most tragic event in the modern era” and that he would issue an official statement affirming…
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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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