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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Art The Nazis recorded everything they stole. One artist is mining their archives for something new.
Lisa Oppenheim’s solo exhibition inverts Nazi archival photos to make the absence of stolen objects and stolen lives feel tangible
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Film & TV If the U.S. had acted, Anne Frank might still be alive — Ken Burns on the Holocaust
The legendary documentarian discusses his latest film, 'The U.S. and the Holocaust'
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Letters FDR was never going to meet with the rabbis marching on Washington
A historian responds to the claims FDR could have met with the 400 Orthodox rabbis marching to save Jews of Europe
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Letters FDR had an option to save more Jews
A history professor responds to a debate in Ken Burns' latest documentary about FDR's inaction in face of Nazi atrocities
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News Did Nazis make these Jewish women infertile?
New academic research suggests female Auschwitz prisoners may have been given hormones in their soup
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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'
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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
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Opinion Even American Jews ignored the Holocaust
New Ken Burns PBS series shows divisions in American Jewish community's response to Hitler
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