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 Leading candidate for Congress invokes Jewish grandfather’s Holocaust murder
Becca Balint, a progressive candidate in the race for Vermont’s sole House seat, attributed her public service to growing up in a family affected by the Holocaust
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Fast Forward New York’s former hate crimes czar has a new mission: teaching the Holocaust
Deborah Lauter discussed what she improved on in New York City and the "distressing" rise in antisemitism
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Culture Wait, did Alex Jones’ lawyer really invoke the Holocaust to defend his client?
For some reason Jones’ defense paraphrased Martin Niemöller’s poem ‘First they came for...’
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Fast Forward Holocaust ‘doesn’t even compare’ to abortion deaths, says GOP nominee for Illinois governor
Darren Bailey is facing Democratic incumbent J.B. Pritzker, who is Jewish, in the general election
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Fast Forward Holocaust memorials in Buchenwald and Berlin vandalized in same week
An association of Holocaust survivors called one incident a “hateful and calculated demonstration of power by neo-Nazis”
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Culture Using previously unknown photographs, a new Holocaust documentary demands to be seen
In ‘From Where They Stood,’ harrowing images were taken by the concentration camp prisoners themselves
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Yiddish World The spa resort where European rebbes spent their summer vacations
Before World War I, the Marienbad resort had hotels for the rebbes, replete with glatt kosher restaurants and ritual baths
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Fast Forward René Slotkin, one of the few surviving ‘Mengele twins,’ dies at 84
Slotkin and his sister were among just 200 sets of twins to survive gruesome experimentation by the infamous Nazi physician Josef Mengele at Auschwitz
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News Jews paused Indiana’s abortion ban — by turning a religious freedom law against the evangelical right
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Culture In 1989, Harold Pinter and Jerry Schatzberg made the perfect Holocaust movie for 2026
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Culture Inside the ancient Christian theology driving modern antisemitism
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Culture Gene Shalit, a mensch with a personality as big as his mustache, turns 100
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