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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Yiddish World Favorite Heirlooms: Hats from the black market in Uzbekistan
These are the hats that my mother and uncles bought when bartering to survive in Uzbekistan during the Holocaust years. My mother was only twelve years old and her brothers – 14 and 9 years of age – when she and her family left Horodenka, Ukraine in 1941 and took the long treacherous journey to…
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Opinion My family’s worst moment is captured in ‘Maus.’ Its ban gravely disappoints me
Have you ever discovered an incident from your own family’s history in a famous work of art? I have. As a child, my mother would tell me stories about our family’s experiences during the Holocaust. Some of them had happened to her parents, Chaya and Mendel, who had fled to the Soviet Union after the…
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Opinion Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comments were wrong — and I’m glad she said them
Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about the Holocaust could not have been more wrong, but I’m glad that she said what she said. In a cringe-inducing segment on The View, Goldberg, during a discussion of the banning of the book “Maus” by a Tennessee school board, said that “the Holocaust wasn’t about race.” Goldberg later apologized, and…
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Nazi collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Spain
On Feb. 13, 2021, 300 neo-Nazis marched in Madrid to commemorate a battle fought by the Blue Division, a formation of Spanish volunteers who fought for the Third Reich
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Nazi collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in the United Kingdom
In Bradford, a plaque celebrates the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations, the brainchild of war criminal Alfred Rosenberg
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Nazi collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Russia
In Yelanskaya, a memorial complex employs a common whitewashing tactic: lumping both problematic and non-problematic figures into a single pantheon of “heroes"
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News EXCLUSIVE: Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. warns that Jews should never take their safety for granted
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Israel’s new ambassador to the U.S. warned of rising antisemitism and the costs of widespread ignorance about the Holocaust. ‘When we say ‘never again,’ it is not only that we don’t want such a horrendous phenomenon to recur. But it is the acknowledgment that something similar to that may recur,”…
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Fast Forward In Germany, Knesset speaker gifts German-American Holocaust survivor her family tree
Israel’s Knesset speaker honored a German-American Holocaust survivor in Berlin Wednesday with an unusual present during commemorations for International Holocaust Remembrance Day: her paternal family tree, dating back to 1660. Inge Auerbacher, 87, who was deported with her parents when she was seven from Germany to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, met with Speaker…
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Yiddish דער קאַפֿע-הױז װי אַ מקום-מקלט פֿאַר ייִדישער קולטורThe cafe as a refuge of Jewish culture
אין די בערלינער קאַפֿע־הײַזער האָט די אינטעליגענץ געשמועסט, געלײענט צײַטונגען און געשפּילן שאַך.
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Yiddish נײַע אָפּערע פֿאַרנעמט זיך מיט טבֿיהס טראַגישער טאָכטער שפּרינצעNew opera focuses on Tevye’s tragic daughter, Shprintse
די שאַפֿער פֿון דער אָפּערע שטעלן זיך פֿאָר די ווירקונג פֿון שפּרינצעס טויט אויף אירע שוועסטער און צייטלס אייניקל.
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