This is the Forward’s coverage of Holocaust survivors.
Survivors
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Opinion ‘I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t believe people could choose peace’: A Nova survivor on protests of Manhattan exhibit
Oct. 7 survivor Eilat Tibi came to New York to share her story — and experienced antisemitism for the first time
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News A Holocaust museum cut a survivor from its speaker’s list — for protesting the war in Gaza
Rene Lichtman says a Detroit-area Holocaust museum dropped him after he protested in front of its building
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Culture The untold story of how Jon Ossoff’s cousin survived the Holocaust and got to the US
He escaped a death march, foraged for food in the forest and placed an ad seeking a long-lost aunt in the Forward
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Culture Could this be the most meaningful Holocaust memorial in New York?
In Riverside Park, a stone meant to be a placeholder for a grander memorial has become an unlikely gathering place for Bundist Holocaust survivors and their descendants
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Fast Forward Germany to give Holocaust survivors in Israel an extra $238 each because of the war
About half of the world’s remaining Holocaust survivors live in Israel
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Fast Forward Martin Greenfield, Auschwitz survivor and master tailor to American presidents, dies at 95
'Receiving your first tailoring lesson inside a Nazi concentration camp was hardly the ideal apprenticeship,' Greenfield once recalled
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Fast Forward Ben Stern, Holocaust survivor who stood up to neo-Nazis in Skokie, dies at 102
The survivor of two death marches often signed his name with 129592, the concentration camp number tattooed on his arm
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Yiddish World The Holocaust survivor in the typewriter repair shop
It wasn’t the sad smile or the stained apron that made me remember him so well. It was the tattoo on his forearm.
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Opinion There’s a shocking new report on civilian deaths in Gaza. If only it were accurate
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Fast Forward Reform movement urges against death penalty for alleged Capital Jewish Museum shooter
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Sports ‘Chetanyahu?’: NBA star sucked into Gaza culture wars over workout video
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Opinion Following Laura Loomer’s lead, the US is repeating an egregious Holocaust-era mistake
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