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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Film & TV In a gripping new thriller series, neutral Switzerland isn’t so neutral after all
Superbly acted, 'Labyrinth of Peace' explodes myths about World War II
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News Israel concedes to ‘disturbing’ demand by Poland: Students should visit memorials to murderers of Jews
Experts slam it as ‘a dream come true for Holocaust deniers’ that glorifies ‘Poles who were involved up to their necks in the murder of Jews’
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Books Slave and victim of the Nazi regime — the complicated legacy of Bruno Schulz
Benjamin Balint delves into the history of the 'virtuoso of language and image' who was murdered on 'Black Thursday'
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Yiddish World The late poet Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim’s tragic secret
Although Basman spoke little about what she endured during the Holocaust, the author believes that her remaining childless was linked to it.
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Film & TV ‘I’m always telling the story of Exodus’: ‘Unorthodox’ creator Anna Winger on her new Netflix show
‘Transatlantic’ chronicles an effort to save artists and thinkers from Nazi Europe
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Fast Forward Michigan GOP under fire for Holocaust meme comparing gun control to Nazism
The Republican Jewish Coalition called it ‘absolutely inappropriate and offensive'
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Opinion I shared my father’s letters about Nazi horrors with a high school class
Dad was a WWII spy. I want kids today to know what he saw
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Yiddish World I grew up Jewish on a chicken farm. This book gets it right.
The surprising story of Holocaust survivors in rural New Jersey
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Culture The PBS series ‘Black and Jewish America’ gets it right — except the Black and Jewish part
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Culture Why Bad Bunny’s halftime show delighted New York Jews of a certain age
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