Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the Holocaust (also called the Shoah), the genocide of Europe’s Jews committed by the Nazis during World War II.
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Fast Forward Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors live in poverty. This foundation wants to help
For some survivors, basic needs like heat and food are hard to come by
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Forwarding the News What we get wrong with Holocaust education, and other stories for Yom Hashoah
Former rabbinical students call out sexism at seminary, Supreme Court to hear religious liberties case, Netflix dating show offers Talmudic lesson & Jake Gyllenhaal wants to be in 'Fiddler' on Broadway.
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Opinion Why we are teaching the Holocaust wrong
'Hate' as a primary cause of the Holocaust is a neat answer, but it flatters us by avoiding complexity
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Opinion How do you teach an incarcerated student with a swastika tattoo?
As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, one particular student posed my greatest challenge
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Film & TV How a gift for music saved one man from the Nazis
The PBS documentary 'How Saba Kept Singing' tells the affecting tale of Holocaust survivor David Wisnia
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Yiddish World VIDEO: My escape from the Warsaw Ghetto
Henryk Robak, a native Yiddish speaker, remembers his time living in the Warsaw ghetto, and how he survived (includes English subtitles)
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Fast Forward On display at Germany’s embassy in Israel: portraits of Holocaust survivors that seek to reclaim their stories
“The significance of exhibiting on Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day at the German embassy in sovereign Israel is not lost on me,” said photographer Erez Kaganovitz
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Yiddish World 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — how to commemorate it
There will be a ceremony honoring the ghetto fighters in Riverside Park as well as a recording of it provided right afterwards.
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Justin Trudeau condemns antisemitism after Montreal pro-Palestinian protest where Netanyahu is burned in effigy
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Culture There aren’t Jewish fighters in Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator II.’ But what about in ancient Rome?
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Fast Forward Three arrested in murder of rabbi in United Arab Emirates; Israel denounces ‘despicable antisemitic act’
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News Trump promised peace in the Middle East. Will his 2020 plan be the blueprint?
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