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 Thousands March in Hungary To Mark Anniversary of Holocaust Deportations
Tens of thousands of Jews and Jewish supporters participated in the 12th March of the Living Hungary in Budapest. Sunday’s event, considered the largest civil anti-fascist event in Hungary, was held on the 70th anniversary of the mass deportation of Jews from Hungary by the Nazis. Holding posters saying “Never again” and “History cannot be…
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Opinion We Still Don’t Know How To Teach the Holocaust
A Jewish boy wears a yellow star like those forced on Jews during the Holocaust / Getty Images “So, children, tell me how you came to Theresienstadt.” Thus began my seventh grade intro to Shoah education. Not that we hadn’t been learning about the Holocaust for most of our day school careers. There was the…
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Opinion Holocaust Lesson: Don’t Just Mourn — Fight Back
This is a talk I delivered yesterday afternoon at the Holocaust commemoration ceremony of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust in Pan Pacific Park. My theme could probably best be summed up by quoting Joe Hill’s final message to Big Bill Haywood: “Don’t waste time mourning. Organize! The Talmud teaches us that from the…
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Israel News NBA’s Donald Sterling Tells Girlfriend, ‘In Israel, Blacks Are Treated Like Dogs’
In a newly released audiotape of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s notorious racist remarks to his girlfriend, he seems to justify his views of African-Americans by noting how in Israel “the blacks are just treated like dogs.” In the original, shorter tape released Friday by the TMZ website, which has caused a storm in…
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News Back to Theresienstadt
Near the front steps of the ghetto museum, a man approaches us. I’m fumbling with a map that I’ve just bought there. When I look up, I notice his posture first. It seems typical of people who often have to ask others for something: The shoulders are hunched, the head bent downwards. He has a…
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Fast Forward Peres: Israel Is ‘Only Possible Memorial Standing’ for Holocaust Victims
Israel is “the only possible memorial standing” for the victims of the Holocaust, Israeli President Shimon Peres said. “Israel is deterrence against any attempt at another Holocaust,” he said during a ceremony Sunday night at Yad Vashem at the start of Israel’s 24-hour observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah. “A strong Israel is…
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Fast Forward Abbas Calls Holocaust ‘Most Heinous Crime’ Ahead of Remembrance Day
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era.” The statement, made in advance of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, was published Sunday by Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency. The statement is the result of a meeting last week in Ramallah between Abbas…
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News Poland’s Dueling Holocaust Monuments to ‘Righteous Gentiles’ Spark Painful Debate
In Poland, where 3 million Polish Jews died at Nazi hands, not one but two new monuments are being planned in Warsaw that will memorialize — and, some fear, distort the role of — the several thousand non-Jewish Poles who tried to save them. As Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches, both projects are generating heated criticism….
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