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 The ‘grown-up Anne Frank’ remains little known — and there’s a reason for that
Etty Hillesum, who died in Auschwitz in 1943, wrote frankly about her inner life and her love affairs
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Looking Forward How a pair of Sunday school teachers inspired Craig Newmark to give his money away
'They taught me the substance of Judaism,' said Newmark, founder of craigslist. 'They basically set my moral compass.'
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Culture A family and a writer plagued by the aftershocks of Holocaust trauma
in 'The Absent Moon,' Luiz Schwarcz writes of survivor guilt and his own depression
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Fast Forward Albania to build museum to citizens who saved Jews during Holocaust
The Besa Museum will be named after the strict neighborly honor code that Albanians say motivated them to protect their Jewish neighbors during World War II
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Fast Forward A US envoy reminds European nations of their complicity in the Holocaust
Ellen Germain makes the case for removing or at least modifying plaques, statues and other memorials to people who collaborated with the Nazis
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Film & TV The greatest film about France in World War II is also a blistering critique of filmmaking
Marcel Ophüls’ ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ lays bear the horrors (and delights) of its own medium
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Culture How the Netherlands became a nation of diarists in WWII
Anne Frank was far from the only chronicler of a country's descent into catastrophe
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News New research documents show Wikipedia distorts the Holocaust
Historians have found that the English-language version of the online encyclopedia often quotes dubious sources that serve a false narrative, which glorifies the help Poles gave to Jews during the Shoah and minimizes their part in their extermination
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Fast Forward Workplaces open, schools remain shut — and Israeli parents pull out their hair over wartime Zoom classes
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Opinion Trump’s Iran dithering puts Israel in an unprecedented position
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Fast Forward AIPAC is targeting candidates who want to condition aid to Israel. Who has crossed its red line?
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