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 ‘Eleanor the Great’ is a crowd-pleasing comedy with a queasy Holocaust concept
Scarlett Johansson’s debut as a director leverages a unique tragedy for a universal message
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Fast Forward Ohio auction house halts sale of paintings looted during the Holocaust and billed as ‘unclaimed property’
The Monuments Men and Women Foundation linked the 17th-century works to Adolphe Schloss, a German Jew whose collection was seized by the Nazis
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Fast Forward LA Holocaust museum retracts social media post that said, ‘Never again can’t only mean never again for Jews’
The museum rejected criticism that the post had been meant as a condemnation of Israel in Gaza
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Fast Forward David Schaecter, Holocaust survivor who founded Miami Beach memorial and led survivors’ advocacy group, dies at 96
Schaecter lost 105 relatives during the Holocaust and spent his life pushing for restitution, Holocaust education and vigilance against antisemitism
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Film & TV How the world transformed Elie Wiesel — and how he transformed the world
'Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire' traces its subject's journey from Holocaust survivor to international hero and human rights leader
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Opinion In the rush to vilify Israel, genocide scholars ignored the truth
This week, the International Association of Genocide Scholars passed a resolution stating Israel is committing genocide in Gaza
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Yiddish World Opera about a unique Yiddish dictionary to have its world premiere
The plot involves two Jewish scholars determined to revitalize the language after its near destruction in the Holocaust
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Culture He escaped the Holocaust and ‘Matzoh Island,’ but America was no promised land
In the graphic memoir 'The Art of Being a Stranger,' Karen Bermann tells the story of her father Fritz, who became a maven of maintenance in New York
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Culture Bob Dylan warned us about guys like Stephen Miller
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Opinion The ICE shooting in Minneapolis shattered my Holocaust survivor father’s American dream
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News Why protests in Iran seem surprisingly pro-Israel
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Opinion In Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine,’ echoes of Nazi justifications for aggression
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News The Holocaust Torah that survived a Mississippi synagogue fire was brought there by the state’s only survivor
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Fast Forward This California synagogue was just vandalized with anti-Zionist graffiti, one year after being destroyed by wildfire
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Fast Forward Australian writers’ festival collapses — and apologizes — after boycott over disinvited Palestinian activist
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