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 Last Living Survivor Of Sobibor Death Camp Dies
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The last living survivor of the Nazi death camp Sobibor has died. Semion Rosenfeld died on Monday at a hospital in central Israel at the age of 96. He moved to Israel from the Ukraine in 1990, according to the Jerusalem Post. Sobibor was built and operated by the SS during World War II near the…
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Fast Forward Netherlands Museums To Return Nazi-Looted Art To Holocaust Survivor’s Family
(JTA) — Two museums in the Netherlands have agreed to return two Nazi-looted paintings to the descendants of a Holocaust survivor. The Central Museum in Utrecht will return to the family of Jacob Lierens the painting titled “Pronkstilleven” by Jan Davidsz, which the Jewish collector was forced to sell under duress, the news site jonet.nl…
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Culture This Holocaust Survivor’s Tapestries Show Her ‘Affirmation Of Life’
Ted Comet is an indefatigable leader and public figure who will serve as a grand marshal of the upcoming Celebrate Israel Parade, but he does one of his most important jobs in the privacy of his own Upper West Side apartment. That’s where he gives tours to school groups, rabbinic students, psychoanalysts and historians of…
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Fast Forward Remains Of 1,200 Holocaust Victims Uncovered During Construction Work Reburied
(JTA) — Volunteers in Belarus reburied the remains of more than 1,000 Holocaust victims whose bodies recently were discovered during construction work in the city of Brest. The burial Tuesday was conducted by volunteers from the ZAKA Jewish search and rescue organization and overseen by a local Chabad rabbi, the news website Jewish.ru reported. The…
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Fast Forward Polish PM: Paying Holocaust Restitution Would Be ‘Victory’ For Hitler
(JTA) — Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that paying restitution for Jewish property stolen during the Holocaust would be a “victory” for Hitler. “If today anyone says that Poland has to pay damages to anyone, then we disagree and will continue to do so and it will not happen as long as the country…
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Culture How Four Women Told The World About The Nazis’ Medical Experiments
In January of 1943, four Polish political prisoners in Ravensbrück, a women-only Nazi concentration camp in northern Germany, wrote letters to their families. Inmates were allowed to write one letter per month, missives that the SS strictly censored. The four women escaped suspicion by banally describing life in the camps as pleasant. But in truth,…
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Fast Forward Al Jazeera Pulls Video Claiming Jews Inflated Numbers Of Holocaust Victims
Al-Jazeera’s AJ+ Arabic channel pulled a video it posted to its social media channels Friday night that claimed Jews exploit the Holocaust and that Israel is the genocide’s “greatest beneficiary.” Two journalists who created the video were later suspended. The seven minute-long, Arabic-language video asserted that though the Holocaust did occur, “it’s different from how…
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The Schmooze Gene Simmons Gives Pentagon Briefing: ‘America Is The Promised Land For Everybody’
Gene Simmons for White House Communications Director? Simmons, lead singer of the legendary rock band KISS, visited the White House on Thursday, USA Today reported. In a video posted to Twitter by CBS reporter Katiana Krawchenko, the star can be seen walking down the driveway with his wife, Shannon Tweed-Simmons, escorted by security. Simmons’ visit…
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