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 A new exhibit honors writer Lore Segal, a child survivor and lifelong skeptic of easy truths
'And That’s True Too' traces the New Yorker writer’s arc from Kindertransport to Manhattan, where she dazzled with her novels, short stories and children’s books
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Fast Forward On PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots,’ Jewish actor Lizzy Caplan discovers her family’s unknown Holocaust story
In this exclusive ‘Finding Your Roots’ clip, actor Lizzy Caplan learns about her mother’s ancestors
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Culture How yizkor books bring the sights, sounds, and even smells and tastes of lost Jewish shtetls back to life
After the Holocaust, survivors and emigrés documented the ways of life characteristic of their fallen hometowns
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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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News A pioneering Reform synagogue makes way for a booming Iranian Jewish community
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News Hampshire College closure reverberates for alumni who treasured a Yiddishist hub
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News Brad Lander joins call to end U.S. aid to Israel, in quest to replace Rep. Dan Goldman
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Opinion Viktor Orbán may fall. Netanyahu should be next
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Film & TV Remembering Siskel and Ebert’s great debate: Mel Brooks or Woody Allen?
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News A Jewish gun club teams up with the NRA, in pursuit of self-defense
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Yiddish World How a young woman smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto
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Fast Forward At Harvard antisemitism conference, Trump official defends ‘list of Jews’ legal strategy in Penn case
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