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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Culture Broken Glass And Insufficient Metaphors
November 9–10, 1938, lives tragically in historical memory for the coordinated attacks against Jews in Germany and Austria by paramilitary forces and locals. A new book, “The Night of Broken Glass: Eyewitness Accounts of Kristallnacht,” argues that to sum up events in which some 400 Jews were murdered “or driven to suicide,” and 30,000 were…
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Fast Forward Polish Film Stirs Debate on Shoah Complicity
A film about a Polish village whose residents help massacre their Jewish neighbours in World War Two has forced Poles to confront one of the most troubling episodes of their past. Most historians take the view that during the war the vast majority of Christian Poles were victims of the Nazi aggression that killed millions…
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Fast Forward Aborigines Reenact Aussie March Against Nazis
Descendants of an Aboriginal elder who staged a unique protest against the Nazis in 1938 re-enacted his famous march to the German consulate in Melbourne. William Cooper, an elder of the Yorta Yorta tribe, led a delegation to the German Consulate in December 1938 to protest the “cruel persecution” of the Jews. He was denied…
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Fast Forward Belgium and Brazil Get Shoah and Human Rights Institutes
Institutions on the Holocaust and human rights opened in Belgium and Brazil. In Belgium, a museum opened last week in Mechelen, a city situated between Antwerp and Brussels where Belgian and German police officers concentrated thousands of Jews for deportation to Auschwitz. Named the Dossin Barracks Memorial, Museum and Documentation Centre for the Holocaust and…
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Life Hanukkah Miracles
I’m not even certain of the year, but it was sometime after the tattoo and before the death march. Aron Lieb was in his early twenties, but he felt elderly. He was working in a coal mine, forced by the Nazis to supply fuel for their war effort. Every night after he emerged from the…
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Israel News Least Known Holocaust Restitution Project
For Americans and most Diaspora Jews, Israel is not the first place that comes to mind when discussing Holocaust-era restitution. For years the focus has been on property, bank accounts and insurance policies looted in Eastern Europe by the Nazis or taken over by local residents whose Jewish neighbors never came back from the death…
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Fast Forward Gallery Defends Art Made of Holocaust Victims’ Ashes
A Swedish art gallery owner has defended his gallery’s decision to show a painting made out of Holocaust victims’ ashes as “having no moral flaws.” Martin Bryder, who owns a gallery in Lund, told Sverige Radio that he “sees no moral problem or flaw with exhibiting” a painting which the artist Carl Michael von Hausswolff…
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Fast Forward Israeli Hoopster Suspended for ‘Nazi’ Jibe
Israel’s leading basketball team Maccabi Tel Aviv has suspended its captain for calling a rival player a Nazi. Guy Pnini, who was caught on video unleashing a string of insults at an Israeli opponent during a game earlier this week, was ousted from his position as captain until the end of the season, suspended until…
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