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 The true story of a Dutch Jewish survivor inspires a tale of WWII resistance
'A Place to Hide' is Ronald Balson's latest historical novel
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Culture Did ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’ inspire Raoul Wallenberg’s Holocaust heroism?
Wallenberg saw an anti-Nazi remake about the superhero with a double life. ‘Pimpernel’ also inspired Stan Lee and Larry David
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Culture Duck Everlasting — The secret Jewish history of Donald Duck
Was Disney's sputtering creature a symbol of liberty or of mankind's fowl propensity to embrace duck-tatorship?
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Culture This Mexican diplomat helped Jews flee Hitler. Does that make him Mexico’s Schindler?
Some say Gilberto Bosques was just doing his job. Others call him a hero
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Culture Why a museum on prewar Jewish life in Europe was envisioned for New York, but never built
YIVO’s Museum of the Homes of the Past was both too early — and too late
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Film & TV Is this a Hitler documentary worth watching?
Joe Berlinger’s Netflix docuseries ‘Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial’ is a lot better than it sounds
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Art In concentration camps, Jewish artists painted in secret, hid their work and traded art for food
Website launched for Yom Hashoah shows art made by Jews in Nazi camps and ghettos during World War II
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Theater Hidden in this picture, the murder of 1.1 million Jews
Tectonic Theater Project’s ‘Here There Are Blueberries’ shows the SS enjoying life at Auschwitz
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