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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Opinion To memorialize their salvation, survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto built a sewer
The Warsaw Ghetto Survivor’s Memorial is designed to look like a sewer — once the source of weapons, of food, of information for Jews stuck in the ghetto.
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Fast Forward Shoah Foundation shares ‘lost’ testimony of Holocaust survivor who died in Mariupol
Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova died in her home in Mariupol, Ukraine, April 4, while the city was under a devastating Russian attack.
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Yiddish World Feeling the poverty as a child of survivors
Michael Fox describes the pain his mother, a Holocaust survivor, felt at needing to depend on relatives for support.
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Opinion Remember the six million without making false comparisons to the Holocaust
Learning from the Holocaust without making false comparisons for political gain requires sensitivity and perspective.
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Opinion ‘Never forgive and never forget’: Why would a Jew live in Poland post-Holocaust?
On a recent trip to Nozyk Synagogue and the Jewish Cemetery of Warsaw, our deputy opinion editor describes how the of the weight of past atrocities affect Jewish perceptions of reality today.
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Film & TV In ‘The Survivor,’ Ben Foster enters the Gray Zone – but doesn’t land a knockout blow
The HBO film tells the true story of boxer Harry Haft
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Opinion I’m joining this year’s March of the Living. It may be the last to include survivors
In 2019, 70 Holocaust survivors walked the historic route from Auschwitz to Birkenau. This year, there will only be eight.
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Opinion Shocked by Russian war crimes? My father never forgot them
What Russians are doing to Ukrainians echoes what Soviet soldiers did to concentration camp survivors
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