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 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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Fast Forward NY governor signs Holocaust education bill, citing spike in antisemitism
‘This is not Nazi Germany,’ Kathy Hochul said. ‘I don't want the citizens of my state to live in fear ever’
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Fast Forward GOP nominee for Illinois governor doubles down on Holocaust analogy
‘The Jewish community themselves have told me that I'm right,’ Darren Bailey, who is challenging Democratic incumbent J.B. Pritzker, said
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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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Opinion Mamdani has made ample efforts for Jews. How come no one is telling that story?
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News Nearly half of young U.S. Jews want to replace Israel with binational state, poll finds
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Film & TV Woody Allen’s biggest fans were easy marks for a fake monologue about antisemitism
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News Floyd Mayweather showered cash on Jewish causes — and now he’s suing their ‘Robin Hood’ alleging $175 million got diverted
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Fast Forward NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani missed the Israel Day Parade. Many who went didn’t miss him.
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Fast Forward NY Democratic stalwarts show support for Israel even as Mamdani skips parade
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Fast Forward For the first time, a kosher restaurant has won a Michelin star
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Fast Forward London police are ‘reviewing’ video of Helen Mirren being called ‘an evil Zionist’