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 Number of living Holocaust survivors is about 245,000, according to new analysis
The oldest known survivor is Rose Girone, 112, of Queens, New York. Her family escaped Germany in 1938 and lived out the war in Shanghai
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Fast Forward Following Auschwitz visit, Elon Musk says X could have saved Jews from the Holocaust
“Two thirds of my friends are Jewish,” Musk said to an approving Ben Shapiro. “I’m like Jewish by association — I’m aspirationally Jewish.”
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Fast Forward German protesters say meeting by far-right extremists echoed the Nazis’ notorious Wannsee conference
Prominent neo-Nazis attended a meeting to discuss plans to deport foreigners not far from the villa where Nazi leaders devised a plan to deport and then murder Europe’s Jews
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Opinion Is Musk’s visit to Auschwitz the kind of Holocaust remembrance we really want?
Musk made a highly publicized visit to the concentration camp with his son and right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro
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Film & TV In ‘Delegation,’ Auschwitz and Majdanek provide the the backdrop for a mumblecore teen heritage tour
Asaf Saban’s film is an uneven look at Israeli high schoolers and the Holocaust
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Culture Harvey Keitel, Jonah Hauer-King star in ‘The Tattooist of Auschwitz,’ a Holocaust love story coming to Peacock
The six-part series, based on a controversial bestseller of the same name, will start streaming May 2
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Film & TV In ‘Vishniac,’ a portrait of a scientist, a fabulist and a chronicler of a disappearing world
Laura Bialis’ documentary shares the work and life of a photographer who captured Jewish Europe before the Holocaust
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Yiddish World The filmmaker who challenged his Haredi community’s prejudices
Menachem Daum believed that reaching out to Poles and other non-Jews was part of his holy work in creating a better world
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