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 Israeli Restitution Agency Sits on Millions as Poor Survivors Struggle
It was hard not to be moved by the plea for financial support made to the Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health Committee in April by Dora Roth on behalf of her fellow Holocaust survivors. “What have you done with the money? What? The sight on television of Holocaust survivors who don’t have heat in the…
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Fast Forward Budapest To Get $22 Million Holocaust Memorial Center
A disused train station in Budapest will soon become a $22 million Holocaust memorial center. Janos Lazar, the Hungarian prime minister’s chief of staff, said the memorial will feature an educational center and will be opened by spring next year at Budapest’s Jozsefvaros train station, the Hungarian news agency MTI reported Thursday. That timing coincides…
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Fast Forward Pope Praises Jews for Keeping Faith During Holocaust, Other ‘Terrible Trials’
Pope Francis praised Jews for keeping their faith despite the Holocaust and other “terrible trials” throughout history, and reaffirmed Judaism as the “holy root” of Christianity. Francis made the statements in an unprecedented open letter to Eugenio Scalfari, a prominent Italian atheist and founding editor of the liberal newspaper La Repubblica. The pope’s letter, published…
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Fast Forward Heirs of German Jewish Art Dealers Await Hearing on Looted Treasure
Heirs of four German-Jewish art dealers are gearing for a fight over a treasure they say was forced from their families’ hands on orders of Hitler’s deputy Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering. But lawyers for the heirs hope a Sept. 17 hearing in Berlin will obviate any legal battles over the fortune in medieval gold artifacts –…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Video Game Rejected by Nintendo Will Become Smartphone Game
The developer of a Holocaust-themed game which was rejected by Nintendo has announced plans to release his work for smartphone users. British game developer Luc Bernard, 26, announced his plan on the website Indiegogo, a crowd-sourcing platform which helps developers and inventors find funding for their products. Bernard made headlines in 2008 with his game…
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Opinion What If Matthew Shepard’s Murder Wasn’t an Anti-Gay Hate Crime?
How important is historical truth? The obvious answer is “very.” Just think of Holocaust denial, which is anti-Semitism built upon historical distortions. But what if an effort to counter hate is based on an inspirational story — and that story is a lie? That’s the moral quandary at the heart of journalist Steve Jimenez’s newly…
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Fast Forward Dutch City Unveils Memorial to Helga Deen, Jewish Holocaust Victim
The Jewish community of Tilburg in the Netherlands unveiled a statue commemorating Helga Deen, a teenage Jewish diarist who died in a concentration camp 70 years ago. The Liberal Jewish Community of Tilburg unveiled the monument in memory of Deen on Monday in partnership with a neighborhood association, the Dutch daily Brabants Dagblad reported Monday….
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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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