Welcome to 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.
Holocaust
The Latest
-
Breaking News Greek Premier Refuses To Wear Kippah at Yad Vashem
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras refused to cover his head at a Yad Vashem memorial ceremony. Organizers of the ceremony at the Hall of Remembrance urged Samaras to respect Tuesday’s ceremony and cover his head with a kippah or hat, but he laid a wreath at the memorial bareheaded, Ynet reported. Samaras is leading a…
-
News Denmark’s Rescue of Jews From Nazis Driven by Cash — Not Just Heroism
In the coming weeks, the 70th anniversary of the rescue of the Danish Jews during World War II will be marked with speeches and toasts, gala performances and torchlight processions. The story of how the Danes helped their Jewish compatriots to safety on the coast of Sweden is always heart-warming. The fishermen who ran the…
-
Israel News Israeli Holocaust Survivors Split Over Iran’s Acknowledgement of Nazi Crimes
Israel has brusquely dismissed Iran’s moves away from the Holocaust denial of its previous president. But actual Holocaust survivors in Israel are divided on how to react to the development. “Personally, for me, it was important — it made me feel something,” said Chava Hershkovitz, 80, at the Yad Ezer L’Haver home for survivors in…
-
Culture A Hungarian Love Story Set Against the Backdrop of Wartime
● I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary By Marianne Szegedy-Maszák Spiegel & Grau, 370 pages, $27 World War II and the Holocaust extinguished so many millions of lives, so many hopes, that each reclaimed story seems like a precious work of salvage. In “I Kiss Your Hands Many Times:…
-
The Schmooze Polish President Honors Survivor Sigmund Rolat
“Not every Pole is an anti-Semite and not every Jew is anti-Polish, “ has long been the mantra of Czestochowa-born Holocaust survivor Sigmund Rolat, an orphan and survivor of a Nazi slave-labor camp in Czestochowa who in 1948 arrived in New York City as a penniless teenager. On September 23, he was honored at a…
-
Breaking News Denmark Marks 70th Anniversary of Jewish Escape From Nazis
A ceremony held in a Copenhagen synagogue marked the 70th anniversary of the rescue of most of Denmark’s Jews from the hands of the Nazis. Sunday’s ceremony marked the October 1943 operation in which more than 7,000 Jews were sent by boat to Sweden after they were ordered deported to Nazi concentration camps, the Associated…
-
Breaking News Iran’s Foreign Minister: ‘Holocaust Is Not a Myth’
Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday that the “Holocaust is not a myth,” and that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei “rejects and condemns the killing of innocent people.” Appearing on ABC’s “This Week,” Javad Zarif was asked by host George Stephanopoulos about a statement appearing on the website of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, which refers in…
-
Breaking News U.S. Holocaust Museum To Return Auschwitz Barracks To Camp
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington will return a section of wooden barracks which was given on long-term loan by the Auschwitz Museum 24 years ago. The barracks, the centerpiece of the U.S. Holocaust Museum’s permanent collection, will be replaced by another set from Birkenau, which will be owned by the museum. The…
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion I’m a Jew of color. Ta-Nehisi Coates can’t apply US lessons to Israel.
- 2
Culture Columbus may have had Jewish heritage — that doesn’t mean he was Jewish
- 3
Opinion The most antisemitic university president you’ve never heard of
- 4
Culture Why Doug Emhoff shared his bar mitzvah with a guy named Scott
In Case You Missed It
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism