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 Finally, her quest for restitution from Germany succeeded — but at what psychological cost?
In 'Summons to Berlin,' Joanne Intrator recounts a grueling journey to receive compensation
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Sports The Women’s World Cup led her to take another shot at professional soccer — and brought her back to her Jewish roots
Womens' soccer has exploded since the last World Cup. The changes brought a once-disillusioned player back to the field
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Film & TV For Ed Asner, a posthumous triumph in a less-than-triumphant final film
The actor delivers a bravura performance as a Holocaust survivor in 'The Tiger Within'
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Film & TV How (and why) did a Bollywood movie make Auschwitz into a lesson on romance?
A new Indian movie takes a tour of the Holocaust sites for unusual reasons
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Culture Can this traveling Holocaust museum fix Holocaust education?
An exhibit designed to be installed in schools aims to make Holocaust education more impactful
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Culture She wrote ‘Gigi’ and inspired a Keira Knightley movie — was she also a Nazi collaborator?
To save her husband from the Nazis, did Colette become one?
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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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