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 Germany to give Holocaust survivors in Israel an extra $238 each because of the war
About half of the world’s remaining Holocaust survivors live in Israel
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Fast Forward Nassau County’s Jewish executive calls on Democratic leader to quit for invoking Nazis
The Democratic leader of the county legislature said she was conveying a comparison made by one of many constituents who have expressed fears over a plan to enlist provisional deputy sheriffs
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Culture Jewish comedian Lena Dunham discovers her family’s Holocaust story on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’
Dunham’s great-great-grandmother Regina came to America as a teenager but left behind at least 11 siblings in Europe
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Fast Forward Amsterdam, atoning role in delivering Jews to the Nazis, pledges 100,000€ and memorials at tram stops
Amsterdam's public transit agency "would now like to express its sincere and sincere regret,” the city said in a statement
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Culture Hulu’s ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ uncovers a Jewish family’s buried past under the Nazis
Georgia Hunter is co-executive producer of a miniseries based on her bestselling novel.
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Music In 1943, an opera was composed at a concentration camp. Now, it’s a graphic novel
‘Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis’ adapts a German parable of life, death and despotism
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Fast Forward Steven Spielberg decries ‘machinery of extremism’ on campus and laments Israel-Hamas war deaths at USC ceremony honoring Holocaust survivors
'We can rage against the heinous acts committed by the terrorists of Oct. 7, and also decry the killing of innocent women and children in Gaza'
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Fast Forward Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95
'Receiving your first tailoring lesson inside a Nazi concentration camp was hardly the ideal apprenticeship,' Greenfield once recalled
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