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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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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News ‘A challenge to the soul of man’: 80 years ago, Hollywood stars pleaded for Europe’s Jews
The audience at the mass memorial overflowed Madison Square Garden, the site four years earlier for a rally of American Nazis
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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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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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News Most Jewish voters rate Mamdani poorly, new poll finds
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Fast Forward After a Maryland teacher’s death, her 200-piece Judaica collection finds new life in a Jewish museum
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Fast Forward British Green Party candidate tweeted about killing Zionists from Anne Frank parody account
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Yiddish World New documentary captures the lively history of Yiddish theater in America