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 An idyllic Jewish village, full of life and hope, just hours before its utter annihilation
The Yiddish language Holocaust film 'Shttl' takes place outside Kyiv prior to the Nazi invasion
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Fast Forward Josef Veselsky, Holocaust survivor and table tennis master who was Ireland’s oldest man, dies at 107
Veselsky joined the resistance in Czechoslovakia during World War II; his family was murdered
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Film & TV What’s funny about living next to a Nazi?
In the attempted comedy ‘My Neighbor Adolf,’ a Holocaust survivor suspects his neighbor is Hitler — and befriends him anyway
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Opinion The Holocaust survivor writer who can help us through this ominous era
Arnošt Lustig experienced the worst of humanity — and maintained hope, anyway
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Opinion What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum?
In our new Trumpian world, even the most unthinkable acts now seem plausible
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Culture Righteous gentiles in the Holocaust were no ‘ordinary thing’
'This Ordinary Thing' recounts the stories of those who hid their Jewish friends and neighbors
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Letters My childhood echoes in newly released Shoah recordings
The New York Historical is exhibiting recordings made by Claude Lanzmann as he was researching his film, 'Shoah'
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Culture Surprise, we’re going to Auschwitz! What happens when an influencer stumbles upon a Holocaust memorial
An influencer gifted her boyfriend a trip to the concentration camp for his birthday. What does that say about the state of Holocaust remembrance?
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News New Jewish-Arab political party debuts in Israel, aiming to topple Netanyahu
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Fast Forward Jewish groups push back against Trump’s Iran deal — but more quietly so far than in 2015
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News Who is Gadi Eisenkot, the Israeli politician who could dethrone Netanyahu?
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Culture My father was my hero and, when he was dying, I wrote this song for him