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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Opinion Anti-Semitic Environmentalism Is The Latest Social Justice Threat To Jews
As a young writer living in California, I find progressive spaces are practically unavoidable. I can’t walk down Santa Monica without someone suggesting I try veganism, nor go to my screenwriting group without a colleague suggesting I add a President Trump joke because Hollywood is all about the resistance. As an intersectional feminist, you’d think…
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Fast Forward Bleak View Of European Jewry’s Future Shared At Holocaust Event
(JTA) – At a Holocaust commemoration event at the European Parliament, Jewish community leaders outlined an unusually pessimistic view of European Jewry’s present and future resulting from anti-Semitism. The ceremony Wednesday at the European Parliament’s annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day event was the first such event in which European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor raised…
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Fast Forward Amid Steve King White Supremacy Scandal, Congressmen Meet With Holocaust Skeptic
Internet troll Chuck Johnson, who has said he doesn’t believe in Auschwitz and its gas chambers, met with two Republican lawmakers in Congress on Wednesday — to talk about genetics, the The Daily Beast reported. Representatives Andy Harris and Phil Roe were spotted walking with Johnson, HuffPost reporter Matt Fuller first noted Wednesday on Twitter….
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Fast Forward Israeli Divers To Search Danube River For Remains Of Holocaust Victims
(JTA) — Divers from Israel’s ZAKA Search and Rescue will begin to search the Danube River in Hungary for the remains of Jewish Holocaust victims. The work, which was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, comes nearly 75 years after tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in October 1944 were shot on the banks of the…
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Fast Forward ‘Schindler’s List’ Escape Room Opens In Greek City With Storied Jewish History
There’s a “Schindler’s List”-themed escape room in Greece — and it’s in a city that lost 96% of its Jewish population in the Holocaust. In escape rooms, participants are locked in a room and tasked with finding clues to break out. Freelance writer Margarita Gokun Silver wrote about her experience at one such room, in…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Helps Trump Sell ‘Crisis’ On Border — And Unpopular Wall
President Trump is on a mission to convince Americans that there’s a “crisis” on the southern border — and to bully Democrats into caving to his demand for a wall. And Jared Kushner is helping out his famous father-in-law, Axios reported. During a briefing, a group of reporters were given a slide deck with statistics…
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Culture Edgar Hilsenrath, Provocative Holocaust Novelist, Dies At 92
Edgar Hilsenrath, a German Holocaust survivor and novelist celebrated for his trenchant and satirical books on genocide and life in the Jewish ghetto, passed away Sunday at a hospital in Wittlich, Germany. He was 92. Hilsenrath was born April 2, 1926 in Liepzig to David Hilsenrath, a furrier, and Anna Hilsenrath, née Honigsberg. As he…
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Fast Forward A Quarter Of All Holocaust Victims Killed In Just 3 Months In 1942
(JTA) — Nearly 1.5 million Jews, or about a quarter of all those murdered during the Holocaust, were murdered in just three months in 1942, a new study found. The expedited murder rate was part of Nazi Germany’s Operation Reinhard for annihilating the Jews of Poland, according to the study published this week by biomathematician…
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News The ADL’s turn away from civil rights was years in the making — Oct. 7 accelerated it
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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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News The Holocaust Torah that survived a Mississippi synagogue fire was brought there by the state’s only survivor
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Fast Forward ‘Dilbert’ cartoon creator once questioned the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust
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