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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Film & TV The greatest film about France in World War II is also a blistering critique of filmmaking
Marcel Ophüls’ ‘The Sorrow and the Pity’ lays bear the horrors (and delights) of its own medium
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Fast Forward He saved 2,500 World War II refugees — but doomed his career as a diplomat
Proposed legislation would honor 60 diplomats who rescued Jews, including Hiram (Harry) Bingham IV, US vice consul in Marseille
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Fast Forward A rabbi went down with his torpedoed warship in 1943. Today, his cousin ensures his story is not forgotten.
Eighty years ago today, a rabbi, a priest and two ministers made the ultimate sacrifice
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Film & TV How film brought Nazis to justice at Nuremberg
'Filmmakers for the Prosecution' shows how two Jewish brothers searched Europe for evidence of the Holocaust
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Culture How a would-be revolution led to an exodus of Polish Jews
History cuts a love story short in a film about the student uprisings that rocked Poland in 1968
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Culture How a master forger used his talents to save Jews, and many more
Adolfo Kaminsky created documents for freedom fighters and rebels around the world
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News The man who saved more Jews than Schindler
Aristides de Sousa Mendes was punished by Portugal for rescuing 10,000 Jews. But their descendants, and Israel, honor his memory
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Opinion FDR’s broken promise: The Allies defeated the Axis powers in Africa — but the concentration camps stayed open
Operation Torch helped topple the Axis powers and Nazi-controlled Vichy regime, but local Jews and Muslims continued to suffer
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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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Film & TV In ‘Disclosure Day,’ Steven Spielberg finds himself at odds with Jewish thought about aliens
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Opinion Cultural boycotts of Israel just reached peak absurdity
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News New Jewish-Arab political party debuts in Israel, aiming to topple Netanyahu
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Fast Forward Mamdani calls AIPAC ‘monsters’ in rally ahead of NY primaries
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Fast Forward Jewish groups push back against Trump’s Iran deal — but more quietly so far than in 2015
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News Who is Gadi Eisenkot, the Israeli politician who could dethrone Netanyahu?
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Culture My father was my hero and, when he was dying, I wrote this song for him