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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News German Owner of $1.3B Looted Jewish Art Trove Hid in Plain Sight for Decades
On the doorbell of the apartment in Munich’s bohemian Schwabing district is a name once distinguished for architecture and music but infamous since the Nazi era by association with the plundering of art works owned by Jews: Gurlitt. The discovery of hundreds of priceless paintings and drawings within has raised questions about how a man…
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Fast Forward U.S. Asks Germany to Publish Complete List of Nazi-Looted Artwork
The United States has asked Germany to publish a list of 1,400 Nazi-looted works of art that were found in a Munich apartment last year during a German tax evasion probe, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. diplomats had contacted the German federal government about the vast…
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Fast Forward French Far-Right Candidate Bounced for Downplaying Holocaust
A candidate for the far-right National Front has been banned from its election ticket for belittling the Holocaust, another sign of racism in its ranks jeopardising its bid to enter town halls across France in next year’s local elections. Joris Hanser, 20, from the eastern town of Rixheim, was the latest to be dropped by…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Offers $622 as ‘Symbolic’ Holocaust Compensation to Jews
Government officials in Lithuania said they would offer symbolic reparations to nearly 1,800 Jewish Holocaust survivors. The officials told the Baltic News Agency Wednesday that the survivors will receive payments of $622 per person this year. The compensation was also for “suffering during the Soviet occupation,” according to the announcement. Lithuanian governments have faced criticism…
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Fast Forward Silvio Berlusconi Defends ‘Feel Like Jews’ Remark Over His Legal Woes
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi stressed his support for Israel and Jewish causes after sparking outrage by comparing his family to Jews under Hitler. In an excerpt of a book to be released Friday, the eve of the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, Berlusconi was quoted Wednesday as saying that, because of the long series…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Donates Wedding Dress to Shanghai Museum
A Holocaust survivor whose wedding photo hangs in the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum donated her gown to the museum. Betty Grebenschikoff, a Berliner who found refuge in Shanghai during the Holocaust, made the donation on Monday during her fifth visit to the Chinese city. Grebenschikoff, who now lives in the United States, had noticed the…
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Fast Forward Dutch Vow To Return 17th-Century Artworks Looted by Nazis to Jewish Family
The Dutch state should return three precious paintings to the descendants of Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker, a commission on Holocaust-era stolen artworks ruled. In its findings on the Goudstikker claim, the Advisory Committee on the Assessment of Restitution Applications for Items of Cultural Value and the Second World War said on Tuesday that the…
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News French Jews Knew To Expect Worst After Kristallnacht
(JTA) — His hearing isn’t what it used to be, but Georges Loinger still remembers Adolf Hitler’s voice emanating from the radio at his Strasbourg home. Growing up in the heavily Germanic Alsace region of eastern France, Loinger and his family tuned in regularly to broadcasts of Hitler’s speeches. They heard his “electrifying voice” and…
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