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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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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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Culture The Jewish ‘songs’ of Alain Resnais
A retrospective for the filmmaker’s 100th birthday finds a mixed, but compelling, bag of Jewish content
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Sports This year’s biggest World Cup upset came from its most ‘Jew-ish’ team
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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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Film & TV In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg finds himself at odds with Jewish thought about aliens
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News Who is Gadi Eisenkot, the Israeli politician who could dethrone Netanyahu?
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Fast Forward Some of Mamdani’s Jewish allies criticize his use of ‘monsters’ to describe AIPAC
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Fast Forward U.K. PM Starmer leaves behind mixed record on antisemitism
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Fast Forward Alan Greenspan, longtime Fed chairman who inspired Jewish pride and antisemitic conspiracy theories, dies at 100