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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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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Nazi collaborator monuments Monument to Ukrainian soldiers who served under Nazis removed from Canadian cemetery
Controversy over the marker resurfaced in the aftermath of veteran honored by Parliament
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Film & TV A ‘new look’ at the Holocaust through fashion recycles old excuses for Nazi collaborators
'The New Look' is a show about World War II, told through Coco Chanel and Christian Dior
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Books How Isaac Bashevis Singer’s translator edits without editing
David Stromberg, the Yiddishist behind a new collection of the Nobel Prize winner's essays for the Forward, talks about the challenges of bringing his work to a modern audience
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Theater In a Romeo-and-Juliet musical set in WWII Shanghai, Chinese and Jewish refugees are star-crossed lovers
'Émigré,' a new production by the New York Philharmonic, recalls the city's embrace of over 20,000 people fleeing the Holocaust
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Culture The 99-year-old Jewish bomber pilot, my father, Amelia Earhart and me
A chance encounter in Riverside Park led to a friendship between a journalist and an elderly aviator
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Culture Critics slammed Harvard’s antisemitism czar for his new book. He says he’s been misunderstood
Derek Penslar's latest book examines Zionist history through the emotions that shaped the movement
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Film & TV Why America was an easy mark for Nazi ideas
‘Nazi Town, USA’ explores how Nazi organizations flourished in the years before World War II
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Fast Forward A whites-only, no-Jews community says it’s found a legal loophole. A Jewish lawmaker in Pennsylvania wants to close it.
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Opinion What if Donald Trump puts his name on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum?
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