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 The real Holocaust history behind ‘Papillon,’ the Oscar-nominated short about a star Jewish swimmer
A painterly animated film revives the memory of French Olympic hero Alfred Nakache, a Jewish survivor of Auschwitz
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Fast Forward Documentary about Jews killed by their Polish neighbors after the Holocaust could be banned in Poland
A minister in the president’s office called the film 'historical anti-Polish manipulation'
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Fast Forward US soldier who protected Jews in POW camp during WWII to be awarded Medal of Honor
Israel honored Roddie Edmonds as a Righteous Among the Nations' in 2015
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Yiddish World Confronting art and love as the Nazis close in
In the play ‘Beneath the Ice of the Vistula,’ a Jewish composer refuses to flee before finishing his master work.
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News As the last generation of Holocaust survivors die, is AI the future of Holocaust education?
An AI-powered digital Holocaust survivor is making the rounds at New York schools and shuls
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Books Art theft, angels and neo-Nazis force a reckoning with the past in ‘The Tavern at the End of History’
The characters in Morris Collins’ novel turn to history and mysticism to grapple with tragedies
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News Anne Frank and ‘Night’ may soon be required reading in Texas public schools. Is that good for the Jews?
The proposal underscores a complicated moment for Jewish literature in Texas schools
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Yiddish World A moving but problematic concert for Holocaust Remembrance Day
An Italian Jewish maestro breathes new life into Yiddish music from the Holocaust, but the composers’ messages got lost in the mix
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