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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Yiddish World How my grandparents met: a Yiddish-American romance
Harry watched, captivated, as Lil spoke to the crowd at a peace demonstration
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Books In America, a German-Austrian novelist hears echoes of his father’s life under Nazism
Daniel Kehlmann's ‘The Director’ confronts his family history through the life of G.W. Pabst
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Books In WWII’s only all-female concentration camp, community was the key to survival
Lynne Olson’s book ‘The Sisterhood of Ravensbrück’ reveals the unsung stories of female French resistance fighters
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Culture How one Jewish woman fought the Nazis — and helped found a new Italian republic
80 years ago, Teresa Mattei fought with the resistance and went on to help write Italy's constitution.
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Opinion 80 years after Germany surrendered, we’re still learning the real lessons of World War II
The morality of the war was never as simple as Allies versus Axis
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Opinion My Holocaust survivor parents would be appalled by what became of their American dream
80 years after liberation, has the bastion of liberty they idolized changed irrevocably?
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Opinion Ireland’s prime minister gave condolences for Hitler’s death — here’s why that’s a contemporary problem
Irish Jews have always lived in some tension with their home country
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Fast Forward Argentina declassifies more than 1,800 files on Nazi escape via ‘rat-lines’ to South America
Argentine President Javier Milei ordered the declassification of the documents after a meeting with leaders from the Simon Wiesenthal Center
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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