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Fast Forward England’s first Holocaust ‘stumbling stone’ will honor a woman who tried to rescue her family
Ada van Dantzig, who studied painting conservation in London, was killed at Auschwitz in 1943
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Culture Why there is no holiday more tragic than Lag B’Omer for my family
79 years ago, much of Ann Weiss’ family was murdered by the Nazis
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Fast Forward The bountiful conspiracies about Hitler’s Jewish blood
Most of the claims about ‘Hitler’s Jewish blood,’ repeated Sunday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, arise from the fact that the identity of his paternal grandfather is unknown. The answer to that question seems to have been buried with his grandmother.
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Opinion ‘I’m not scared of anything anymore’: what it’s like leaving Auschwitz with a Holocaust survivor
'I have nightmares from the memories,' Harry Olmer told me as we walked to Birkenau. 'But I’m not scared of anything anymore.'
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Culture ‘What I felt at the time, I still do not understand’: A 17-year-old’s interview with a survivor
94-year-old Theresienstadt survivor Ruth Hass Meissner tells her story to her grand-nephew
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News She was in Auschwitz, but ‘had no idea she is in the Holocaust’
Prof. Hanna Yablonka, who pioneered the translation of Julia Skodova’s memoir into Hebrew, describes this unique report by a woman who was there from the first moments of the Final Solution.
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Nazi collaborator monuments in Kosovo
Xhaver Deva, who helped create the SS Skanderbeg, has two streets named after him in Mitrovica and Pristina
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Nazi-collaborator monuments Far-right marches in Europe echo Nazi past
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, photographs showcase how white supremacists around the world embrace fascist forebears
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Culture Why saying ‘L’shana Tova’ on Rosh Hashanah may not be the correct phrase
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Culture A Jewish prophet of the 1980s would be horrified to see that we didn’t heed his warnings
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Opinion This is the most disorienting Rosh Hashanah in memory
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Fast Forward Meet Lev Kreitman, who brought down Tel Aviv shooter and survived Nova music festival on Oct. 7
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Fast Forward College campuses mark Oct. 7 anniversary with rallies and protests — but largely not confrontation
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