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 $5.8M Looted Poster Collection Hits Block
A collection of pre-World War II posters that were returned to the heir of a Jewish dentist who fled the Nazis is going on sale. The more than 4,300 posters collected by Hans Sachs and looted by the Nazis will be auctioned at Guernsey’s in New York on Jan. 18, though the auction house is…
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Fast Forward 101-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Beats Sandy
A 101-year-old Holocaust survivor and author is believed to be the oldest evacuee from superstorm Sandy. Wheelchair-bound Morris Sorid was plucked from his nursing home in the Rockaways along with hundreds of seniors and is now waiting out the recovery in another Queens facility, the Daily News reported. “To tell you the truth,” he told…
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Fast Forward Russian Lawmaker: No Free Transit for Survivors
A local Russian lawmaker from President Vladimir Putin’s ruling party reportedly opposed making public transportation free for Holocaust survivors. Andrei Yershov of the Smolensk city council in western Russia admitted to making the explosive comments during a free-ranging council debate Oct. 16, AFP reported. A recording of that meeting – a tape that has gone…
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Fast Forward Nazi Leader’s Sister Hid Jews During Holocaust
The sister of a Belgian Nazi leader hid three Jews in her home near Brussels during the Holocaust, according to one of the survivors. Hanna Nadel, now 86, said she, her mother and her niece were rescued by M. Cornet, the sister of Leon Degrelle, who, as leader of the Belgian Nazi Rexen movement, was…
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Fast Forward Jewish Family Wants Monet Painting Back
The heir of a wealthy Jewish businessman who sold a Monet painting for an artificially low price as he fled Europe to escape the Nazis is seeking its return from a Swiss foundation. Juan Carlos Emden of Chile is working to recover Claude Monet’s “Poppy Field near Vetheuil” from the Swiss Buehlre collection, the French…
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Fast Forward Dutch Official Sorry for Honoring Nazis
A Netherlands church official apologized to a Jewish group for a memorial ceremony that commemorated Holocaust victims with soldiers who died fighting for Nazi Germany. Rob Mutsaerts, a bishop from Den Bosch in the southern Netherlands, in a letter last week expressed his regret to the small Jewish organization JFN. Mutsaerts apologized for a sermon…
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Fast Forward Suspected Nazi Sues Australia for Deport Try
Alleged Nazi war criminal Karoly “Charles” Zentai has paved the way for a damages suit against the Australian government for wrongful imprisonment during its unsuccessful extradition case against him. Zentai, a 91-year-old pensioner living in Perth, was imprisoned in Western Australia for almost two months in 2009. He filed a writ last week for unspecified…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorial Defaced on Greek Island
A Holocaust memorial in Rhodes was defaced by unknown vandals. The Holocaust Memorial to the Jews of Rhodes was spray painted with swastikas on all six sides of the memorial. The initials AME also were spray painted on the monument, and may refer to an unknown organization, according to the Greek Helsinki Monitor. The attack…
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Fast Forward Israeli report on ‘systematic’ Oct. 7 sexual violence seeks to shift debate from denial to accountability