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 This editor helped thousands of Holocaust survivors. But he rarely talked about it.
Isaac Metzker was the driving force behind the Forward's Seeking Relatives and Bintel Brief columns
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Culture How one newspaper column saved lives, reunited families and changed the course of Jewish history
During the Holocaust and its aftermath, the Forward's Seeking Relatives helped thousands when no one else could
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Yiddish World A summer reunion in the country, Jewish socialist style
Camp Hemshekh, which closed in 1978, was the summer home for hundreds of campers, many of them children of Holocaust survivors
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Fast Forward Newly discovered document lists more than 3,000 Jews the Catholic Church sheltered from Nazis
The discovery sheds new light on the Vatican’s actions during the Holocaust, but some historians have questions
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Fast Forward The Holocaust wasn’t fueled by antisemitism, Hitler hated Jews for their money, says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Speaking at a conference, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas voiced an antisemitic justification for Hitler and the Nazis
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Fast Forward 98-year-old German man charged with accessory to murder at Nazi concentration camp
Because he was under 21 years old at the time of the crimes, the suspect is being charged under juvenile criminal law
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Fast Forward Holocaust gravesites identified in Latvia and Netherlands using contemporary technology
The grave in Latvia was located using technology created by American researchers
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News A Holocaust museum is launching in Fortnite. Can video games fight antisemitism?
Luc Bernard has spent 15 years trying to bring Holocaust education into the mainstream gaming space
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Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
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News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
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Opinion What does Mamdani’s response to synagogue protests mean for Jews? No one will like the answer.
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Opinion More than 25% of Israelis want to leave the country. How did we get here?
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Opinion How would Jews fleeing Europe have fared under Trump’s anti-immigration policies?
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