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.
Holocaust
The Latest
-
News Did Nazis make these Jewish women infertile?
New academic research suggests female Auschwitz prisoners may have been given hormones in their soup
-
Film & TV Over 25,000 Jewish partisans fought back against the Nazis. A new film tells 8 of their stories.
Director Julia Mintz interviewed some of the last surviving partisans for her documentary 'Four Winters'
-
Art A new New York law requires museums to label art looted by Nazis — but is it constitutional?
Some legal scholars say the law is an example of ‘compelled speech’ and may violate the First Amendment
-
Opinion Even American Jews ignored the Holocaust
New Ken Burns PBS series shows divisions in American Jewish community's response to Hitler
-
News Ken Burns’ PBS documentary ‘The U.S. And The Holocaust’ asks hard questions about how Americans treated Jews and immigrants during wartime
Working with top historians, Burns and his co-directors cover some surprising territory in their retelling of the American response
-
Fast Forward Wolf Blitzer, the son of Holocaust survivors, discusses his new CNN special on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Blitzer's tour of the museum airs less than a week after Dana Bash's CNN special on antisemitism
-
Fast Forward How 3 minutes of a home movie from 1938 turned into an acclaimed Holocaust documentary
“Three Minutes: A Lengthening,” which looks into the stories of people from a small Polish town before the war, traces its inspiration back to a basement in Florida.
-
Books He escaped one ghetto only to find himself imprisoned in another
Santiago Amigorena's novel imagines his grandfather's life in Argentina and the one he left behind in Poland
Explore
Most Popular
- 1
Opinion A quiet diplomatic shift in the Middle East, with monumental consequences for Israel
- 2
Fast Forward Mississippi fire suspect called the temple a ‘synagogue of Satan’
- 3
News Why protests in Iran seem surprisingly pro-Israel
- 4
News Synagogue arson suspect posted satirical antisemitic cartoon on day of the attack
In Case You Missed It
-
Culture The mysterious case of Barbra Streisand and the missing half-pound of Zabar’s sturgeon
-
Fast Forward Nick Fuentes says his problem with Trump ‘is that he is not Hitler’
-
Fast Forward Larry Ellison once renamed a superyacht because its name spelled backwards was ‘I’m a Nazi’
-
Fast Forward Alex Bregman, who drew a Jewish star on his cap after Oct. 7, inks $175M deal with the Cubs
-
Shop the Forward Store
100% of profits support our journalism
