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 Criticizing Melania Trump’s Cyberbullying Campaign Is Sexist
Pundits have made much of the fact that First Lady Melania Trump is campaigning against cyber-bullying — verbal abuse carried out via electronic means — at the same time that her husband Donald Trump is unleashing daily name-calling tirades on Twitter. Intra-family conflicts make for fascinating reality television story lines, all the moreso when it’s…
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Art How Hard Is It To Trace Nazi-Looted Art? Heirs’ Showdown With German Foundation Gives Insight.
When the Viennese cabaret artist and art collector Fritz Grünbaum was deported to the Dachau concentration camp in 1938 — he would die there in 1941 — his art collection numbered more than 400 works, many by the Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele. Much of his collection was confiscated by the Nazis after his deportation, after…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Memorials In Estonia Torched, Vandalized With Swastika
(JTA) — Unidentified individuals scrawled anti-Semitic slogans and symbols on monuments for Holocaust victims in Estonia. The incident occurred sometime last week at the Kalevi-Liiva village in the Harju County near Tallinn, the capital of the Baltic nation of Estonia, the website News-Front reported Thursday. The monuments, erected at sites of mass killings of Jews…
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Fast Forward Michael Cohen’s Holocaust Survivor Father Urged Him To Cut Ties With Trump
Michael Cohen’s father, a Holocaust survivor, encouraged him to cut ties with President Trump, the Wall Street Journal reported. It was a turning point for Cohen, Trump’s former longtime personal attorney, who had been in ever-increasing legal jeopardy since April. Maurice Cohen urged his son not to protect the president, saying that he didn’t survive…
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Fast Forward Former Nazi Camp Guard Deported From U.S. To Germany
(JTA) — A former guard at a Nazi concentration camp was deported to Germany overnight from the United States, where he had lived for decades. Jakiw Palij, 95, had lived Queens in the United States. He served as a guard at a Nazi forced labor camp during World War II. He may face prosecution in…
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The Schmooze The Jewelry Brand Making Necklaces Out Of Concentration Camp Numbers
Dana Rogozinski, founder of Jakob Ella jewelry, always knew she wanted to find a way to carry on her grandmother’s Holocaust legacy, but she didn’t quite know where to start. Dana always kept her grandmother’s story close to her heart, even as she studied fashion and jewelry in New York, and felt an even stronger…
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Fast Forward China Is Creating A Global Registry Of Minorities
As a way to monitor its ethnic minorities, Chinese authorities are creating a global registry of Uighurs — a Turkic ethnic group — who live outside of China, The Daily Beast reported. Those on the list are required to provide personal information to Chinese police, or else their relatives will be detained. The Chinese government…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Survivor Laments Holocaust Denier’s Run For Congress In Her District
An Auschwitz survivor can’t believe a Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denier, is running to represent her district in Congress, the Chicago Tribune reported. Stasia Dorna was fourteen when she was transported to Auschwitz. She remembers the sour soup, the icy barracks and her friend who was badly beaten for sneaking a bite of potato. Dorna…
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