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Holocaust

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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Opinion
I didn’t understand Holocaust denial until Oct. 7

My survivor grandmother feared that no one would believe her. Now I know why.

By Eric Silberman Dec 28, 2023 | 5 min read
Film & TV
Steve McQueen’s over-4-hour tour of modern and Holocaust-era Amsterdam makes history mundane — and unbearably boring

‘Occupied City’ is a morbid slideshow of buildings that are no longer standing

By PJ Grisar Dec 20, 2023 | 4 min read
Film & TV
The song, and the Holocaust survivor, behind the year’s most stunning moment in film

How Joseph Wulf’s Yiddish song ‘Sunbeams,’ composed at Auschwitz, ended up in Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Zone of Interest’

By PJ Grisar Dec 19, 2023 | 4 min read
Fast Forward
In a shift, Latvia and Lithuania are paying Holocaust survivors and heirs for their stolen property

The Lithuania program is open to applications only until Dec. 31

By Shira Li Bartov Dec 19, 2023 | 2 min read
News
That 98-year-old man on drums at the White House Hanukkah party? A Holocaust survivor fulfilling a dream

President Joe Biden has a history of elevating Holocaust survivors

By Jacob Kornbluh Dec 18, 2023 | 3 min read
Books
The best Jewish books of 2023

Grab one (or several) of these new classics before the new year

By Irene Katz Connelly Dec 18, 2023 | 7 min read
Film & TV
‘Schindler’s List’ is darker — and braver — than you may remember

The film, Schindler’s List, marking its 30th anniversary, has been unjustly dismissed by scholars

By PJ Grisar Dec 14, 2023 | 6 min read
Fast Forward
Guy Stern, WWII ‘Ritchie Boy’ who became renowned Holocaust scholar, dies at 101

As a refugee-turned-intellignce operative, Stern grilled Germans in their native tongue

By Andrew Lapin Dec 13, 2023 | 3 min read

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