  Dear Reader,
One of the most shameful pieces of American media history is this: very little mainstream reporting on the Holocaust appeared in American newspapers as it happened. It wasn’t a lack of knowledge, but a purposeful erasure as antisemitism was alive and well in the United States. Publishers didn’t want it on their front pages, and so stories were buried.
Jewish and Yiddish publications, including the Forward, were the exception to the silencing of Jewish suffering. We published some of the earliest dispatches covering the escalating violence against Jews, and predicted the atrocities that would follow before almost any other paper. Through this reporting, we learned something critical: in the face of antisemitism, Jewish voices may be the only ones to speak out. We need your support to ensure that the Forward will always be there to do it. As antisemitism continues to rise, independent Jewish media is more important than ever. Today is Yom HaShoah, the day Jewish communities commemorate and mourn the horrors of the Holocaust. For American Jews, recent months have served as a terrible reminder that antisemitism is alive and well. As antisemitism continues to rise, independent Jewish media is more important than ever.
We need your support to ensure that Jewish voices are never silenced. Make a gift today in honor of the journalists who came before us, and in memory of a horror that can never happen again. Sincerely,  Rachel Fishman Feddersen Publisher & CEO, The Forward
P.S. Our original coverage of the Holocaust was in Yiddish — and thanks to the power of our archive, you can still read that content today. See why we’re dedicated to preserving our history, for the sake of our future.
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