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 Anne Frank to Join the Madam Tussauds Gallery in Vienna
A life-size wax figure of Holocaust diarist Anne Frank has gone on display at Madame Tussauds in Vienna. The display shows Anne writing in her diary at a desk in the attic of the house in Amsterdam where the teenager’s family hid from the Nazis. The diary was discovered after the Holocaust and published. Anne…
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Fast Forward 92-Year-Old Nazi Faces Trial for Killing of Resistance Fighter
A 92-year-old who served in the Waffen-SS, Adolf Hitler’s elite Nazi troops, went on trial on Monday in the western city of Hagen on charges of having shot in the back and killed a Dutch resistance fighter at the end of World War Two. In an televised interview with broadcaster Das Erste, accused killer Siert…
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Opinion Ron Paul To Keynote Parley of Anti-Semites
Former Texas Congressman and perennial GOP presidential contender Ron Paul is scheduled to keynote a conference in Canada next weekend of a “radical traditionalist” Catholic organization that’s described by human rights organizations as a major center of anti-Semitism. Other scheduled conference speakers include John McManus, president of the John Birch Society, the hoary staple of…
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Culture Did Jews Win the Second World War?
● How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism By Benjamin Ginsberg Rowman & Littlefield, 234 pages, $35 Benjamin Ginsberg’s intriguing new book, “How the Jews Defeated Hitler,” offers a provocative new answer to an old question. In seeking to explain why the Jews failed to resist…
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The Schmooze When Selfies Get Out of Control
Sometimes, it’s good to be reminded of the destructive power of the selfie. A new Tumblr called “Selfies At Serious Places” does just that. It’s exactly how it sounds: people taking close up pictures of their faces with an incredibly inappropriate backdrop. Seriously though: what goes through your mind when you tweet a picture of…
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Fast Forward Moscow Mayor Candidate Denies Praising Holocaust
Jewish staffers for the campaign of Moscow mayoral candidate Alexei Navalny have denied reports that he praised the Holocaust. “To my knowledge, he never made the statement attributed to him,” Maxim Katz, deputy director of the Navalny campaign for the September 8 mayoral election, told JTA Tuesday. Katz, a 29-year-old Moscovite local politician who had…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Eliezer Silver Trove Goes on Auction Block
A huge collection of letters, manuscripts, religious artifacts and photographs belonging to one of the leading rabbinical authorities of 20th-century America will be put up for public sale on Wednesday in Jerusalem. The entire archive of Rabbi Eliezer Silver (1881-1968), who served for decades as the head of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis in both…
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The Schmooze Auschwitz Survivor Crowned ‘Miss Holocaust’
Shoshana Colmer, 93, a survivor of Auschwitz, was crowned Miss Holocaust at a contest in Haifa. The second annual Miss Holocaust Survivor Beauty Contest was held Aug. 22 at the Municipal Sports Complex before an audience of thousands. More than 300 women from Israel and around the world applied to participate in the contest, according…
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivor event features a Rob Reiner video address — recorded just weeks before his death
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Fast Forward In Reykjavik, Hanukkah offers a chance for Iceland’s tiny, isolated Jewish community to come together
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Opinion When my children decorate for Hanukkah, I don’t just see pride. I see pluralism in action.
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Fast Forward ‘The most Australian name’: Matilda, the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach attack, embodies a nation’s grief
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