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 How a gift for music saved one man from the Nazis
The PBS documentary 'How Saba Kept Singing' tells the affecting tale of Holocaust survivor David Wisnia
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Yiddish World VIDEO: My escape from the Warsaw Ghetto
Henryk Robak, a native Yiddish speaker, remembers his time living in the Warsaw ghetto, and how he survived (includes English subtitles)
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Fast Forward On display at Germany’s embassy in Israel: portraits of Holocaust survivors that seek to reclaim their stories
“The significance of exhibiting on Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day at the German embassy in sovereign Israel is not lost on me,” said photographer Erez Kaganovitz
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Yiddish World 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — how to commemorate it
There will be a ceremony honoring the ghetto fighters in Riverside Park as well as a recording of it provided right afterwards.
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News At Holocaust museum, a million victims are still nameless
A new installation at Yad Vashem records the names of 4.8 million Holocaust victims on large pages that let visitors search for lost family members. The work is still underway to add new names and fix errors
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Fast Forward ‘How Saba Kept Singing,’ Holocaust doc produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, to air on PBS for Yom Hashoah
David Wisnia survived Auschwitz thanks to his operatic singing voice — and a relationship with a lover with whom whom he reunited nearly 75 years later
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Culture A Japanese diplomat saved this cellist’s father-in-law from the Shoah. Now she’ll honor him at Carnegie Hall
Kristina Reiko Cooper conceived 'A Concert for Sugihara' while grappling with the 'mass displacement of refugees' today
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Opinion As antisemitic hate crimes rise, I see alarming parallels to my grandmother’s childhood during the Holocaust
Just two generations ago, my family was torn apart
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Opinion How Israel became a country where teenagers murder each other in cold blood
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Sports NBA coach Steve Kerr: ‘Israel sought revenge for Oct. 7 and now 72,000 Palestinians have been killed’
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Film & TV A new documentary challenges stereotypes about Orthodox Jewish women — and their wigs
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Yiddish World New documentary captures the lively history of Yiddish theater in America