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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Yiddish World How Jewish refugees managed, against all odds, to make a Seder in 1941 in Kobe, Japan
In her diary, the actress Shoshana Kahan described how difficult it was to find eggs to make the matzah balls
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Fast Forward A Queens-based Holocaust survivor remembers her real-life rescuer played by Anthony Hopkins in ‘One Life’
Hanna Slome of Flushing, 99, was one of 669 Czech children sent to Britain thanks to Sir Nicholas Winton
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Fast Forward Germany to give Holocaust survivors in Israel an extra $238 each because of the war
About half of the world’s remaining Holocaust survivors live in Israel
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Fast Forward Nassau County’s Jewish executive calls on Democratic leader to quit for invoking Nazis
The Democratic leader of the county legislature said she was conveying a comparison made by one of many constituents who have expressed fears over a plan to enlist provisional deputy sheriffs
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Culture Jewish comedian Lena Dunham discovers her family’s Holocaust story on PBS’ ‘Finding Your Roots’
Dunham’s great-great-grandmother Regina came to America as a teenager but left behind at least 11 siblings in Europe
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Fast Forward Amsterdam, atoning role in delivering Jews to the Nazis, pledges 100,000€ and memorials at tram stops
Amsterdam's public transit agency "would now like to express its sincere and sincere regret,” the city said in a statement
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Culture Hulu’s ‘We Were the Lucky Ones’ uncovers a Jewish family’s buried past under the Nazis
Georgia Hunter is co-executive producer of a miniseries based on her bestselling novel.
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Music In 1943, an opera was composed at a concentration camp. Now, it’s a graphic novel
‘Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis’ adapts a German parable of life, death and despotism
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Culture Jimmy Carter’s death: Assessing the 39th president’s record on Israel and the Jews
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Fast Forward Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winner behind ‘Maus,’ plans graphic novel about Gaza
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Opinion I was wrong about Israel. I apologized. Then President Carter gave me a lesson in grace
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Books This devastating story of a hidden child during WWII will change how you think about France and the Holocaust
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Fast Forward Elissa Slotkin sworn into Senate on Reform movement women’s Torah commentary
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Fast Forward Joe Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jewish megadonor George Soros
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Opinion My grandmother fled Hitler in 1938. She’d be skeptical of panic over antisemitism today
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News Meet the Arab Christian leading the race to represent Israel at Eurovision
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