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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Israel News Experts dismiss Israeli drive to vaccinate world’s Holocaust survivors as political stunt
An Israeli cabinet minister’s plan to vaccinate all 320,000 of the world’s remaining Holocaust survivors immediately drew harsh criticism from survivor advocates, former diplomats and public health experts, who accused her of floating the monumental effort to boost her political profile ahead of the country’s upcoming parliamentary election. The Shalom Corps, a non-profit jointly owned…
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Culture How Slovakia’s Oscars contender revived two forgotten Holocaust heroes — an interview with Peter Bebjak
When Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba escaped Auschwitz in 1944, they didn’t just save themselves. The two men, both Slovak Jews, used data secretly compiled during their time as sonderkommandos in Auschwitz to write the eponymous Wetzler-Vrba report, which provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of the death camp’s infamous gas chambers. Publicized by…
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News This customized van is helping UK Holocaust survivors record their stories during the pandemic
(JTA) — As one of the youngest Holocaust survivors, Eva Clarke has spent years telling the story of how her mother, weighing just 68 pounds, gave birth to her inside a concentration camp just a month before it was liberated. But this spring, as COVID-19 shut down public life, Clarke’s visits to schools and community…
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Community My grandmother never talked about her experience in World War II. Until now.
As a kid, your grandparents seem to be these larger than life people who are only capable of love. As you grow older, you come to realize that they have lived many experiences before you came along. They have loved and lost. They have fought for their rights and the rights of everyone around them….
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News After an online ‘onslaught’ over exhibit on racial justice, a Florida Holocaust museum vows not to back down
In late November, the Holocaust Memorial Resource & Education Center of Florida sparked outrage when it opened its current exhibition, “Uprooting Prejudice: Faces of Change.” The bilingual exhibit, which runs through Jan. 31, consists of 45 large-format, black-and-white photo portraits. Chicago photographer John Noltner, a native of Minnesota, was inspired to take the shots in…
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News What the Facebook antitrust lawsuits might mean for hate speech
Antitrust lawsuits filed Wednesday against Facebook focused on what plaintiffs say is the improper use of consumer data by the social media giant and a monopolistic strategy of squashing competition. But while Facebook’s use of data has come under scrutiny over the years — including after the 2018 Cambridge Analytical scandal, during which users learned…
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Fast Forward In Florida, a Holocaust museum’s George Floyd inspired exhibit spurs debate about its mission
A Florida Holocaust museum that also explores modern social problems as part of its mission is attracting criticism for a new exhibit inspired by the police killing of George Floyd, and the unrest that followed. The Holocaust Memorial and Education Resource Center of Florida’s Uprooting Prejudice: Faces of Change Exhibit, features portraits taken by a…
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News Tony Blinken: guided by a story of Holocaust rescue, and an advocate for Israel’s Iron Dome
President-elect Joe Biden has picked Antony Blinken as his secretary of state — a “promotion” for Blinken, who had served as a deputy secretary of state for two years under the Obama Administration, from 2015 until he left office in January of 2017. Blinken was born in New York City to Jewish parents. Here are…
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