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 Gifted to a bar mitzvah boy in 1936, a rescued book reunited two families. What other stories do Nazi-looted books tell?
The National Library of Israel wants to take a closer look at 35,000 books in its collection that had been stolen by the Nazis
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Communications Forward essay on growing up with a biracial Yiddish identity wins 1st place Rockower Award
In her essay, Kyla Kupferstein Torres describes the warm relationship she had with her Holocaust survivor grandparents
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Culture This massive collection of 11 million postage stamps represents every life lost in the Holocaust
The stamps, collected by children, are on display at the American Philatelic Society with letters from survivors and victims
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Politics NC gubernatorial candidate accused of antisemitism says people need to start reading Hitler quotes
Mark Robinson, the Republican frontrunner for governor in 2024, spoke at a Moms for Liberty gathering
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Books How a master of understatement conjured up the horrors of the Shoah
Aharon Appelfeld's 'Poland, A Green Land' is a sort of fable set a generation after the fall of the Third Reich
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Books Books Briefing: A mysterious postcard illuminates a French family’s Holocaust history
Plus doppelgänger stories, new Jewish romance and a reboot of a Yiddish classic in this month's books newsletter
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Fast Forward In leaked audio, Michigan GOP chair laughed off criticism of Holocaust analogy tweet
Kristina Karamo said that anger over a post in which the Michigan GOP invoked the Holocaust to attack gun restrictions was ‘completely hilarious’
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Theater Young Jews grapple with how to remember what some Holocaust survivors would rather forget
A new play explores the tension between a mandate to 'never forget' and the impossibility of remembering
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Opinion The ICE shooting in Minneapolis shattered my Holocaust survivor father’s American dream
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Opinion A quiet diplomatic shift in the Middle East, with monumental consequences for Israel
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News Why protests in Iran seem surprisingly pro-Israel
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Culture Bob Dylan warned us about guys like Stephen Miller
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Sponsored College in Israel, Made Clearer: How “The Future Is Calling” Helps American Jewish Students Find Their Place
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News The ADL’s turn away from civil rights was years in the making — Oct. 7 accelerated it
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Opinion What Jackson, Mississippi’s only synagogue means to its city — in the wake of arson, and beyond
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