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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Community Americans Need A Dose Of German Guilt
12 years ago, I met with a young German Christian woman who sought my assistance in converting to Judaism. As I listened to her reasons for wishing to be Jewish — her marriage to a Jewish man, her partnership in raising a Jewish daughter, her affection for the customs and traditions of Judaism — I…
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Culture Here’s Stan Lee’s Final Published Work (Spoiler: He Discusses the Holocaust)
Editor’s Note: Legendary comic book creator Stan Lee, who passed away this week, took a strong interest in the Holocaust in recent years. His final published essay appeared as the introduction to the recent book “We Spoke Out: Comic Books and the Holocaust,” by Neal Adams, Rafael Medoff, and Craig Yoe (IDW/Yoe Books, 2018). “We…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Survivor Dies After Being Knocked Down By NYC Commuter
(JTA) — Kurt Salzinger, a Holocaust survivor, grandfather and psychology scholar, died nearly two weeks after he was pushed to the ground at Penn Station in New York City by a commuter who was running to make a train. Salzinger died Thursday at 89. He had been in a coma since hitting his head Oct….
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The Schmooze Sarah Silverman: I’m Lucky My ‘Walk Of Fame’ Star Isn’t Getting Sewn Onto My Clothing
It was a joke so not-nice she used it twice: Upon receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and appearing on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Sarah Silverman made a pitch-black joke about anti-Semitism. “In a scary time when anti-Semitic crime is up 57% since 2016, it’s not lost on me how lucky…
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Community 80 Years After Kristallnacht, Holocaust Education Is More Important Than Ever
Two-and-half-weeks ago, the Philadelphia community came together to formally open the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Plaza at the first public Holocaust memorial in downtown Philadelphia. Just five days later, a gunman killed 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue, and it became tragically clear that our concern about history repeating itself was warranted. November 9th marks the 80th…
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Community I Survived The Holocaust — And Pittsburgh Brought The Old Fears Rushing Back
My name is Johanna Reiss. You may already know it; I am the Author of the memoir The Upstairs Room and other books about my experiences as a Jewish child hidden in Holland during World War II and how I managed to live through it. Since 1945, I thought I was done with my old…
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Fast Forward Lithuania Defends Nazi Collaborator Accused Of Killing Jews
(JTA) — Lithuania’s state historical institute on the Soviet domination of the country defended in court a deceased collaborator with Nazi Germany who is accused of murdering Jews. The Center for the Study of the Genocide and Resistance of the Residents of Lithuania defended Jonas Noreika against the allegations by numerous historians last month in…
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News Jewish Students Honor Pittsburgh’s Victims At Homemade Holocaust Memorial
A Jewish school in Pittsburgh boasts one of the city’s landmarks: a Holocaust memorial sculpture, created by an artist from 6 million aluminum tabs that the students collected over almost five years. When the Community Day School dedicated the sculpture, called “Keeping Tabs,” the feeling was that such an elaborate effort was necessary to help…
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Fast Forward German government pledges record $1B in funding for Holocaust survivor home care
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Fast Forward Rabbis Angela Buchdahl and Elliot Cosgrove show the split in the pulpit over political endorsements
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