This is the Forward’s coverage of World War II, the global conflict during which Nazi Germany perpetrated the Holocaust.
World War II
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Culture An astonishing history of wartime Berlin that reads like a thriller
Ian Buruma's 'Stay Alive' is at once panoramic and intimate, dispassionate and deeply moving
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Opinion During WWII, a heroic Jewish lawyer warned against the dangers of a dual state — is it coming true in Trump’s America?
Ernst Fraenkel would have recognized the way our legal system is splintering
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Opinion My university wants me to sign a loyalty oath — am I in America or Vichy France?
An unsettling memo from a Texas university recalls France's lurch into authoritarianism during WWII
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Culture Created in hiding during WWII, a Jewish artist’s underground ’zines are finally rising to the surface
From 1943 to 1945, Curt Bloch produced 96 editions of a satirical publication he called 'The Underwater Cabaret'
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Culture What will become of the Dutch farm school that saved my father from the Nazis?
A plan to create housing and a new memorial center on the site of Holland's 'Werkdorp Wieringermeer' is drawing mixed reviews
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Fast Forward 82 years after his plane was shot down in China, Jewish WWII pilot Morton Sher is laid to rest at home
Sher's remains were buried in Greenville, South Carolina
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Books The Nazis sent them to Hawaii to spy for the Japanese
in 'Family of Spies,' Christine Kuehn confronts a past that is stranger and more sinister than fiction
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Culture Is the movie ‘Nuremberg’ about the wrong psychiatrist?
The movie stars Rami Malek as the psychiatrist Douglas Kelley — but what about Leon Goldensohn?
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Opinion We must rewrite the rulebook for fighting antisemitism — or conspiracists like Joe Kent will win the narrative wars
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News Ben Gurion airport shutdowns leave already disrupted passengers desperate
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Fast Forward Reese’s Pieces are now kosher pareve. Carnivores rejoice.
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Fast Forward Vance’s Jewish chief of staff shares his approach to right-wing antisemitism, new profile reveals
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Fast Forward ‘No Kings’ protests fall on Shabbat. So these Jews organized one in walking distance.
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Yiddish וואָס איך האָב אַנטדעקט בעת מײַן וויזיט אינעם שוועדישן גן־עדןWhat I discovered during my visit to the Swedish paradise
לייזער בורקאָ באַשרײַבט שוועדנס ווייניק באַקאַנטע מיליטערישע געשיכטע.
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