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 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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Life My Son Already Knew About the Holocaust
Thinkstock One Sunday late last year, while on a biweekly library run with my children, I picked up an illustrated book about Anne Frank from the kids’ section. “What’s that book, mom?” my son inquired, as he cleared the shelf of Franklin W. Dixon’s “The Hardy Boys.” I quickly hid it between the stash of…
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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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