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 Philip Roth Answers Your Letters, BootyCall Israel
In this week’s Reporters Roundtable podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Backward editors Dan Friedman and Tony Weiss to discuss the latest issue of the Backward, which features Philip Roth answering questions in the Bintel Brief, a new Birthright trip called “BootyCall Israel.” Plus, is Hollywood giving up blockbuster Holocaust movies for slavery movies?…
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Fast Forward Greek Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party Blasts Holocaust Remembrance as ‘Unacceptable’
The Greek neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party has questioned the country marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, calling it “unacceptable.” In a question posed in the Greek Parliament last week, Golden Dawn lawmaker Ioannis Lagos asked the Education and Interior ministers why state institutions and schools where commemorating Jan. 27th. “We have received complaints that on this…
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Fast Forward Paul Goma, Romanian Author Accused of Anti-Semitism, Gets Nobel Nod
A writer’s association in Moldova reportedly has nominated Paul Goma, a Romanian author accused of writing anti-Semitic texts, for the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Paul Goma’s claims to fame is only by denying the Holocaust, falsifying historical facts and anti-Semitic attacks,” Iosif Belous, vice president of the East European Association of Former Prisoners of Ghettos…
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Life O.K. Corral’s Jewish Gal
Every March brings us Women’s History Month. Among this year’s highlights is the publication of a new biography of an American Jewish woman — Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp — by another American Jewish woman, Ann Kirschner. If the Earp name sounds familiar, that’s because Josephine’s common-law husband, Wyatt, has occupied the limelight of American Old…
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The Schmooze Claude Lanzmann Honored in Berlin
French documentary filmmaker and producer Claude Lanzmann will be honored at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, where he spoke about filming his famous “Shoah” documentary. Lanzmann, 87, was expected to receive an Honorary Golden Bear for his lifetime achievement on Thursday evening. “I was happy, I was moved and I was proud,” Lanzmann told…
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Fast Forward Switzerland Blocked Just 3,000 Jewish Refugees Fleeing Holocaust
Swiss authorities turned away only 3,000 Jewish refugees during the Holocaust and not 24,500 as believed, French Nazi hunter and historian Serge Klarsfeld said. Klarsfeld told Switzerland’s Der Sonntag newspaper that the figure of 24,500 came from imprecise archive material processed by the authors of the 1999 Bergier report on Switzerland’s Holocaust-era record and called…
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Fast Forward ‘Righteous’ French Group Boycotts Jewish Event
A French organization that saved Jews during the Holocaust has declined to attend a commemoration because it was organized by pro-Israel Jews. The Marseille branch of CIMADE, a French Protestant group established in 1939, declined to attend the region’s main memorial ceremony for Jewish Holocaust victims because of the pro-Israel attitude of CRIF, the umbrella…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivors Protest Boca Raton Golf Tourney Backed by Allianz
Holocaust survivors for a third straight year protested outside a golf tournament in Florida sponsored by Allianz because of what they deem the insurance firm’s restitution failures. The survivors gathered outside the Allianz Golf Championship in Boca Raton over the weekend demanding that Allianz pay some $2 billion that the survivors say is owed to…
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