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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Books He could have avoided persecution in Nazi Germany — he got bar mitzvahed instead
'Half-Jew — Full Life’ tells the story of Gerd “Pips” Phillipsohn's life before and after Hitler came to power.
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Yiddish World Restored Yiddish film ‘I Have Sinned’ captures pre-war Polish Jewry
An illegitimate birth is a major plot element, which would have been unthinkable in a contemporaneous American movie
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Film & TV She thought she knew her mother. Then she learned about the concentration camp
In the documentary ‘My Underground Mother,’ Marisa Fox uncovers her mother’s hidden past as a Holocaust survivor
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Fast Forward Survey shows half of Irish adults do not know 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust
The new survey from the Claims Conference found nearly one in 10 Irish adults believe the Holocaust is a myth
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News The Holocaust Torah that survived a Mississippi synagogue fire was brought there by the state’s only survivor
Gilbert Metz, the state’s only Holocaust survivor, brought the Torah to Beth Israel decades ago
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Opinion The ICE shooting in Minneapolis shattered my Holocaust survivor father’s American dream
The fatal shooting of Renée Nicole Good by an ICE agent has made terrifying family memories feel too close to reality
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Film & TV An idyllic Jewish village, full of life and hope, just hours before its utter annihilation
The Yiddish language Holocaust film 'Shttl' takes place outside Kyiv prior to the Nazi invasion
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Fast Forward Josef Veselsky, Holocaust survivor and table tennis master who was Ireland’s oldest man, dies at 107
Veselsky joined the resistance in Czechoslovakia during World War II; his family was murdered
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