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 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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News Teach the Holocaust Separately, Germans Told
Teaching about the Holocaust has not kept the old wounds of Jew hatred from reopening in Germany. This is the reality that the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, implicitly acknowledged October 17 when it debated the state of anti-Semitism in the country following a disturbing government-commissioned report delivered to it last January. The report, written by a…
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News Disenchanted Jewish Voters, Eli Valley’s Science Experiment
In this week’s podcast, host Josh Nathan-Kazis is joined by Nathan Guttman to talk about their interviews with Jewish voters in swing states and the prevailing sense of disenchantment with the presidential election. Then, opinion editor Gal Beckerman drops by with a few words for undecided voters. Finally, Eli Valley calls in to discuss his…
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