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 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 She survived the Holocaust in Lublin and became a scholar and symbol of Jewish resilience and resistance
Nechama Tec's history of Jewish partisans in Belarus inspired the 2008 film 'Defiance'
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Culture In New York, migrants crowd into hotels seeking shelter — just like Jewish refugees did after WWII
At the Roosevelt, the Park West and the Belnord, echoes of Holocaust survivors' stories
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Fast Forward Rare video footage of Jews from train leaving Bergen-Belsen unearthed
In April 1945, American soldiers filmed Holocaust survivors who had been released from a train on their way to their death in a remote German village near the end of WWII
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Fast Forward Unarmed man who tackled Bondi Beach Hanukkah attacker identified as Ahmed al-Ahmed
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Opinion I grew up believing Australia was the best place to be Jewish. This Hanukkah shooting forces a reckoning I do not want.
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Fast Forward Hanukkah shooting leaves at least 15 dead at Australia’s most popular beach
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Fast Forward Father and son suspects in Bondi Beach Hanukkah attack identified as Sajid and Naveed Akram by law enforcement
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Opinion My religion was ‘None of the above,’ until Oct. 7 and now Bondi
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Yiddish World This Pennsylvania rabbi fuses liberal Judaism with Hasidic Yiddish
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Yiddish World What’s a gender-segregated Hasidic pilgrimage like?
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Fast Forward Australian authorities confirm that Bondi Beach attackers were affiliated with Islamic State terror group
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