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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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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Opinion A Holocaust perpetrator was just celebrated on US soil. I think I know why no one objected.
Russia's invasion has made ordinarily outspoken critics of antisemitism wary of criticizing Ukrainian Nazi collaborators
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Culture Hidden in a famous WWII photo, two heroic Jewish stories
The Elbe Day picture captured American and Russian armies uniting against the Nazis — and cemented two Jewish soldiers in history
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Film & TV How Marlene Dietrich saved me — or maybe my twin sister — and helped inspire me to become a lifelong activist
Eleanor Rubin's first brush with fame and activism came unexpectedly during the 1942 Dietrich film 'The Lady Is Willing'
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Theater ‘Operation Mincemeat’ is a musical farce about fooling Hitler — with nothing much to say about Nazis
The delightful musical erases its main character’s Jewishness, and much of his true motivation
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News Why Nazis spent World War II in a luxury West Virginia resort
The strange, forgotten history of the Greenbrier hotel, where German diplomats and their families were treated to gourmet meals and spa treatments
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Opinion The Iran war ended terribly for the US, and even worse for Israel
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News Abdul El-Sayed is courting Jewish voters — without moderating his views on Israel
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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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Culture My father was my hero and, when he was dying, I wrote this song for him