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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Nazi collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Italy
Rudolfo Graziani, known as the Butcher of Fezzan and the Butcher of Ethiopia, has a children's park named after him
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Nazi collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in India
While Subhas Chandra Bose is seen by some as a freedom fighter, his alliance with Hitler and the Waffen-SS cannot be ignored
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Nazi collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Austria
Multiple honors for Ferdinand Porsche and his son, Ferry
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Fast Forward A complete list of every time RFK Jr. has compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust
The presidential candidate has a troubling history of comparing vaccine and mask mandates to the Shoah
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Culture Enough with the insincere apologies for antisemitism — and enough with the Holocaust comparisons that inspire them
Yet another set of public figures have compared vaccine mandates to the Holocaust, an ever-growing club that never fails to draw ire and condemnations from prominent rabbis, Holocaust museums and just about every Jew on Twitter. Inevitably, the apologies came shortly thereafter. “It is never okay to compare anything to the evil of Nazi Germany….
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Culture How the U.S. wined and dined Nazis, then destroyed the evidence, in Netflix doc
In the wake of World War II, the world united in an attempt to bring top Nazi officials to justice. Though many attempted to flee, they were hunted down; some were assassinated by Mossad, and others were prosecuted in military tribunals and widely-publicized hearings such as the Nuremberg Trials. Those who evaded capture remained the…
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News A Holocaust course designed for Muslim students may soon be taught at more schools
Muslim students at a New York private school are taking a course on the Holocaust designed for young followers of Islam, a project backers hope will serve as a model for other Muslim schools. An after-school elective at Brooklyn Amity School, the course has brought a dozen 16 and 17-year-olds together every other week since…
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Culture Yiddish porn, Einstein’s letters and Rabbi Schneerson’s sermons united in ‘largest single remnant of Jewish life’ in Europe
In 2014, Jonathan Brent discovered something he didn’t know he was missing. Walking into the Wroblewski Library in Vilnius, he saw a long table covered with boxes. Inside were documents belonging to the organization he heads, YIVO, the Institute for Jewish research, which was founded in Vilna and moved its operations to New York in…
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Opinion A quiet diplomatic shift in the Middle East, with monumental consequences for Israel
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Fast Forward Mississippi fire suspect called the temple a ‘synagogue of Satan’
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News Synagogue arson suspect posted satirical antisemitic cartoon on day of the attack
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Culture He works at a Holocaust museum by day. How’d he end up in ‘Marty Supreme’?
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Fast Forward Larry Ellison once renamed a superyacht because its name spelled backwards was ‘I’m a Nazi’
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