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 Google Online Institute Highlights Jewish Themes
Google introduced a new online historical collection of digitized material, highlighting several Jewish themes, events and institutional partners in its first wave of exhibits. At least 13 of the Google Cultural Institute’s inaugural collection of 42 featured exhibits consist of materials from the Anne Frank House, the Polish History Museum, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, Foundation…
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Fast Forward Hugo Chavez Reelection Worries Jewish Leaders
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez won re-election, defeating Henrique Capriles Radonsky, the grandson of Holocaust survivors Chavez took 54.42 percent of the votes to Radonsky’s 45 percent in the Oct. 7 poll, his term will end in 2019. Chavez, a known friend of Iran, become a leading figure in modern Latin American history and will extend…
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Fast Forward Film Recounts Story of Doomed Refugee Ship
The U.S. State Department presented a program of speeches and a play highlighting the history of the MS St. Louis for about 200 people, including more than 30 survivors. The highlight of the event was the play “The Trial of FDR.” That play is expected to be shown throughout the country to remind people of…
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Life Grandma’s Gefilte Fish
Every year just before Rosh Hashanah, my mother and I engage in a ritual attempt to approximate my grandmother’s gefilte fish recipe. The recipe itself is an approximation. She cobbled it together from other Holocaust survivors, and perhaps gleaned a few tips from women in a displaced persons’ camp, perhaps remembering bits from what her…
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Fast Forward French Train Company Loses $204M Contract
The Maryland subsidiary of a French company that Holocaust survivors accuse of not fully acknowledging its Holocaust complicity will not receive a $204 million contract with the state railway. The Maryland Department of Transportation is expected on Oct. 3 to ask the state’s Board of Public Works – which must approve all state contracts –…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Denier Forced to Bankruptcy
A Holocaust denier living in Australia was declared bankrupt after a claim against him by a Jewish leader. Adelaide-based Dr. Fredrick Toben was jailed in 2009 for contempt of a court order banning him from publishing anti-Semitic material on his website. Toben, who was born in Germany, was ordered last year to pay $56,000 in…
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Fast Forward Polish Mall Uses Kristallnacht as Slogan
A Polish mall used the term ‘Crystal Night’ as an advertising slogan. “Rob the collection. Crystal Night of shopping,” was the new advertising slogan of Manufaktura Mall in Lodz, which appeared this week on billboards throughout the city. After the intervention of city residents, the company has decided to change the billboards. Crystal Night, or…
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Fast Forward Hungary Steps Up Fight With Claims Conference
The Hungarian government has urged the Claims Conference to “refrain from misleading, intentionally misguiding and provoking fear.” The announcement, which was recently published on the government’s website, is the latest escalation in a vociferous exchange which began last month, as the Hungarian government froze money transfers to the Claims Conference citing poor reporting. The Claims…
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