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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News Meet the Auschwitz survivor saluted by George Santos in Congress
Some doubted her story was real. But it is, and it will break your heart
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Fast Forward He saved 2,500 World War II refugees — but doomed his career as a diplomat
Proposed legislation would honor 60 diplomats who rescued Jews, including Hiram (Harry) Bingham IV, US vice consul in Marseille
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Opinion Poland and Germany have long taken opposing approaches to Holocaust remembrance. Touring them with Doug Emhoff, the difference was stark
In Europe with the second gentleman, I saw that it's crucial to take Holocaust remembrance personally
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Fast Forward Poll: 94% of Jews in George Santos’ district want him to resign
Santos lied to Jewish voters during the campaign about his grandparents fleeing the Holocaust and being a ‘proud American Jew’
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Film & TV How 99% of Nazis got away with murder
‘Getting Away With Murder(s)’ is a fiery indictment of a world that lost interest in justice
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Yiddish World New film about postwar shtetls in the former USSR is now streaming
The film "Shtetlers" reveals the Jewish culture that Jews and non-Jews shared in these towns.
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Fast Forward McCarthy defends Greene’s appointment to COVID-19 panel despite past Nazi analogy
‘People can have all the questions they want,’ House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said on ‘Face the Nation’
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Opinion ‘Live without fear’: Doug Emhoff opens up about his Jewishness as he visits his ancestors’ Polish hometown
In an interview, second gentleman regrets not speaking up when witnessing antisemitism in his own past
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Culture RFK Jr.’s poems to Olivia Nuzzi are peak cringe — so were King Solomon’s
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News DNA test kits spark a surge of online conversions to Judaism in the U.S.
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Opinion What does Mamdani’s response to synagogue protests mean for Jews? No one will like the answer.
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Opinion More than 25% of Israelis want to leave the country. How did we get here?
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Culture She was a dancer who leapt to the top of her field — then the Trump administration fired her
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Fast Forward Northwestern agrees to pay $75M, void encampment deal to end Trump’s antisemitism investigation
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Culture How a troublemaking private school dropout became the Johnny Appleseed of tech
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Fast Forward Netanyahu says he is formally seeking the pardon Trump requested on his behalf
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