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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Fast Forward On Reddit, Kanye superfans finally reach their breaking point
The r/Kanye subreddit is no longer analyzing lyrics — it's educating about the dangers of Nazism
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News The man who saved more Jews than Schindler
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was punished by Portugal for rescuing 10,000 Jews. But their descendants, and Israel, honor his memory
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Fast Forward Flanked by white nationalists, Kanye West claims in podcast that Jews want to ‘lock me up’
West abruptly left the studio after being challenged about his antisemitic views
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Opinion I discovered a long-lost relative who survived the Holocaust in Soviet gulags
Jews who survived under Stalin rather than Hitler are largely absent from mainstream film and literature
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Culture In the shadow of the Holocaust, a new Kafkaesque nightmare for Jews in Czechoslovakia
70 years ago, 10 Jews were executed after the antisemitic Slánský trial
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Opinion FDR’s broken promise: The Allies defeated the Axis powers in Africa — but the concentration camps stayed open
Operation Torch helped topple the Axis powers and Nazi-controlled Vichy regime, but local Jews and Muslims continued to suffer
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Fast Forward Libraries may need ‘a book that disputes the Holocaust,’ Washington school employee says
The comment was the latest incident in which the Holocaust has been caught up in the rancor over public school curriculums
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Film & TV His father directed ‘Casablanca,’ but he felt like a Jew without a home
Michael Forster fled Europe as a child, but never escaped the feeling of displacement and alienation
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News Synagogue arson suspect posted satirical antisemitic cartoon on day of the attack
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