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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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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Film & TV Why a gripping new movie about the aftermath of a terrorist attack is personal for its director
After her brother survived 2015 Bataclan concert hall massacre, Alice Winocour wanted to tell a story of resilience and survival
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Opinion He used to be a Christian Holocaust scholar. Now he’s a Jew
The most hopeful words I’ve heard about antisemitism came from this Holocaust expert
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Books ‘My Friend Anne Frank’ tells the incredible story of how Anne’s best friend survived the Holocaust
Against all odds, Hannah Pick-Goslar and Anne Frank were reunited briefly at Bergen-Belsen, the camp where Anne died
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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Culture 70 years ago, this Jewish choreographer predicted our epidemic of loneliness and isolation
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Fast Forward Connecticut Catholic school punishes students who targeted ‘Jew Canaan’ rivals on social media
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