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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Books How Saul Rubinek’s best lie helped him get to the truth about his family’s Holocaust history
In “All In The Telling,” Rubinek’s partly-fictionalized memoir, he convinces his parents he’s writing a Holocaust story to solve a family fight.
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Culture They escaped the Nazi genocide, but these ‘Wanderers’ still went through hell
In Daniela Gerson's latest book, a tale of survival and subterfuge that echoes the stories of today's immigrants
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Yiddish World Recalling Millie Baran, whose mark on the Yiddish world lives on
Once a beloved "camp mother" at a socialist summer camp, she was invited onto "The View" to describe her Holocaust experiences.
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Culture ‘I’m fragmented, and a surviving remnant’: The story of Westerbork prisoner 8331
Jack Boas was devastated by the Holocaust, even if he can't remember any of it
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Looking Forward Stumbling across Jewish history in a vintage store
Abram Krol, a Polish-Jewish artist, explored his experience of Judaism and the Holocaust in his art
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Yiddish World How a young woman smuggled weapons into the Warsaw Ghetto
Vladka Meed’s memoir ‘On Both Sides of the Wall’ challenges the myth of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Far-right Polish lawmaker draws outrage after calling Israel the ‘new Third Reich’
Konrad Berkowicz held up a modified Israeli flag that replaced the Star of David with a blue swastika during Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day
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Fast Forward Congress removes deadline for Holocaust-looted art claims, setting stage for more restitution battles
A 2016 law required all claims to be made by the end of this year
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