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 Meet Margot Friedlander, Berlin’s Unlikely 92-Year-Old Jewish Celebrity
By moving back to Berlin three years ago, Margot Friedlander, a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor, has become an unlikely celebrity in the land where she was once persecuted. In 1946, when she immigrated to New York with her husband, they both vowed never to set foot again in Germany. Most members of both their families were…
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Fast Forward German Police Discover 1,500 Masterpieces Seized by Nazis in Munich Apartment
Works by several of the greatest artists of the modern age have been held at a secret location near Munich for the past two years, after having been discovered in a raid by the German authorities on the apartment of an elderly man accused of tax fraud. The 1,500 pieces include works by Picasso, Matisse,…
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Fast Forward eBay Yanks 30 Items of Holocaust Memorabilia
EBay has removed from its listings around 30 items of memorabilia from the Nazi Holocaust, including clothes worn by concentration camp victims, after a newspaper investigation discovered they were on sale on the e-commerce website, Britain’s Mail on Sunday said. The newspaper said its reporters found a range of items on the site over the…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Take Lives in Toronto 18th-Floor Double-Suicide Death Plunge
An octogenarian couple — both Jewish Holocaust survivors — killed themselves in Toronto in an apparent suicide pact. Police are treating the deaths of Vladimir Fiser, 89, and Marika Ferber, 84, as a double suicide. Their bodies were found Tuesday at the base of their apartment building. They are believed to have jumped to their…
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Fast Forward 139 Artworks Looted From Jews in Holocaust Found at Dutch Museums
Dozens of Dutch museums are in possession of at least 139 items with “problematic origins,” a special commission on stolen Holocaust-era art in the Netherlands has determined. The list that the Committee for Museum Acquisitions from 1933 onwards published on Tuesday includes priceless items that are in the hands of 41 museums, including world-famous institutions…
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Fast Forward Virtual Stumbling Blocks Holocaust Memorial to Jews Launched in Munich
A virtual Holocaust memorial has been launched to remember Jewish victims from Munich. Visitors to the Bavarian capital can now see the biographies of hundreds of Jewish victims of the Holocaust as they pass by their former homes, thanks to a new app launched last week called Stolpersteine Muenchen, or Munich Stumbling Blocks. Martina Bachmann,…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Blast Honor for German Insurance Giant Allianz
A group of Holocaust survivors blasted the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous for honoring an executive of an insurance company that had denied claims to families of Holocaust victims. The Holocaust Survivors Foundation, the umbrella body for a number of U.S. survivors groups, last week wrote to JFR, saying that its decision to honor Peter…
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Books A Uniquely Israeli Vision of the Afterlife
The World of the End By Ofir Touché Gafla Translated by Mitch Ginsburg Tor Books, 368 pages, $16.98 A recent cartoon published in the New Yorker shows a group of people standing by a grave. A woman is speaking, and the caption reads, “Wherever he is, I know he’ll be upgraded.” Might the afterworld —…
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