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 Greek Holocaust Memorial Vandalized Twice In Two Weeks
(JTA) — A Holocaust memorial was vandalized in the Greek city of Thessaloniki. The monument, located on the campus of Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University, was smeared in blue paint and a cross was painted on it. Tuesday’s attack is the second time that the monument has been vandalized in two weeks. The monument, a series of gravestones…
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Fast Forward Germany Increases Funding For Holocaust Survivors Globally By $88 Million
(JTA) — Germany has agreed to increase its funding for social welfare services for Holocaust survivors by $88 million. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany in its announcement Tuesday said the increase brings global allocations by Germany for 2019 to $564 million. The Claims Conference and representatives of the German government negotiated the…
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Community In Cologne, Archaeologists Unearth The History Of Germany’s Oldest Jewish Community
After attending the New Waves Day 2018 concert in Dusseldorf, Germany last month, I took a train to Köln, or what we know as Cologne. It was the nearest big city, and I wanted to see if the waterfront along the Rhine was as spectacular as Dusseldorf’s. But what I saw there was even grander….
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Community Netanyahu Cares More About His Power Than About Jews
It’s not every week that the Israeli state Holocaust memorial of Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) issue statements rebuking the Prime Minister of Israel for distorting the historical record of one of the greatest tragedies ever to befall the Jewish people. But it did happen last week. What provoked this…
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Fast Forward Yad Vashem Slams Netanyahu For Polish Holocaust ‘Deceptions’
Israel’s main Holocaust memorial criticized as historically inaccurate on Thursday a joint statement by the Israeli and Polish prime ministers aimed at ending a dispute over Holocaust legislation in Poland. The Jerusalem-based center, Yad Vashem, challenged in particular the validity of the leaders’ assertion that the Polish underground and government-in-exile in World War Two came…
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Culture How A Daughter Of The French Resistance Learned The Truth Of Her Roots
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. This article is part of a series based on oral-history interviews with students of Yiddish and other members of the community at the Medem Library ~ Paris Yiddish Center. The first article appeared in Yiddish on March 18. Simone Virsube’s story begins in 1946, some months after…
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Community What ESL Teachers Know About Family Separation
The shoes. I can still see all those tiny little shoes, piled high into the sky and miles from the children that once molded them. It’s an image that, all these years later, I still cannot remove from my memory. One of the most dramatic images in Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem,…
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Letters Is The Muslim Ban The First Step To Genocide?
The decision by the Supreme Court to uphold the Muslim travel ban is devastating and shameful. It will not only harm those Muslims seeking refuge and/or reunification with their family in America, but it will also fuel a dangerous and very real animus toward Muslims who for generations have called America their home. A word…
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