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 How $57 Million Holocaust Fraud Unfolded at Claims Conference
The federal courtroom in Manhattan was notably empty considering the eye-catching size and target of the fraud: a 15-year campaign to falsely claim $57 million meant for some of the world’s neediest Holocaust survivors. Only a smattering of friends and relatives of the three accused were in the 26th-floor courtroom for the climactic closing statements…
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Fast Forward Claims Conference Workers Guilty in $57 Million Holocaust Fraud Case
Three people, including two former employees of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, have been convicted for stealing $57 million intended for Holocaust victims. Semen Domnitser—who was the director of two of the Claims Conference’s funds from 1999 to 2010—Oksana Romalis, who left the Claims Conference before the fraud was discovered, and a…
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Fast Forward Sisters Fired Over ‘Happy Hanukkah’ Oven Jibe
Two Iowa sisters were fired from their jobs after joking about “burning the Jews” inside a toy oven. Christina and Susan Ott were dismissed from an assembly plant in New Hampton, Iowa, in January, the Des Moines Register reported , after walking around work on Dec. 19 with a toy oven in which they placed…
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Life Being Jewish in Berlin
For years, I skirted around Berlin. Trips to Europe took me to Denmark, Holland and France, but never to their neighbor. When a friend finally convinced me to visit this spring, I got one of two responses from all of my Jewish friends: “Oh, I love Berlin! It’s like Brooklyn. I’ve been thinking about moving.”…
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Culture David Roskies and Naomi Diamant Guide Readers Through Holocaust Literature
● Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide By David G. Roskies and Naomi Diamant Brandeis University Press, 360 pages, $85 In the preface to “Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide” (Brandeis University Press), which he co-wrote with Naomi Diamant, David Roskies recalls a variety of Holocaust commemorations from his Montreal adolescence. At one Bundist gathering…
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Fast Forward Monte-Carlo Philharmonic To Play Concert Using Holocaust Victims’ Instruments
The Philharmonic Orchestra of Monte-Carlo will perform a concert in Monaco featuring instruments of Jewish Holocaust victims. Several violins belonging to Jews murdered by the Nazis will be played at the May 5 concert at Monaco’s Grimaldi Forum, and the stories of their owners will be told, according to a report in the Nice Matain…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors and Liberators Meet on Museum’s 20th Anniversary
Ending a three-decade quest, Debbie Long on Monday met the American “kid” soldier who freed her mother from a World War II Nazi concentration camp. She threw her arms around Eldon Ooton, now 90, and sobbed. Long and Ooton were among the former concentration camp prisoners, their families, and the U.S. soldiers who liberated them…
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Culture Diary of Girl’s Time in Concentration Camps Invites Comparisons to Anne Frank
● Helga’s Diary: A Young Girl’s Account of Life in a Concentration Camp By Helga Weiss, translated by Neil Bermel W.W. Norton, 240 pages, $24.95 Seven decades after the Holocaust, survivor stories are still trickling out, adding nuance to a familiar and gruesome narrative. It is sometimes hard for these latecomers to get the attention…
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