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Commentary: Shoes can be a method of escape, and a tool for taking action

I recently gave a lecture to students at the University of Colorado about my childhood experiences as a refugee survivor from the days of the Holocaust. Aside from relating my story, I had a message to deliver: “Vote. Talk to your friends, parents, neighbors and anyone who will listen. Your…

Tribune News Service · May 10, 2022

Holocaust survivor who came to Glasgow as a child returns to Central Station to share story

Henry Wuga MBE, 98, a former Jewish-German child refugee arrived at Glasgow Central Station in 1939 when he was 15 years old after escaping the horrors of Nazi Germany.

Glasgow Live · May 9, 2022

Holocaust survivor shares story of his escape to Scotland with school children

A HOLOCAUST survivor returned to the train station where he first arrived in Scotland after escaping Nazi Germany to share his story with secondary…

The National (Scotland) · May 9, 2022

How Victory Day became central to Putin’s idea of Russian identity

Rhetoric of 1945 victory over Nazis has become more twisted over two decades of Putin’s rule

The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2022

Vladimir Putin apologises to Israel PM for Sergei Lavrov’s claim that Hitler had Jewish origins

The Russian president and Israel’s PM Naftali Bennett talked over the phone, after which an Israeli statement said Mr Putin had apologised

Evening Standard · May 5, 2022

Putin ‘apologises to Israel’ after minister claimed Hitler was Jewish

Israeli PM said he accepted apology on behalf of Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov

The Independent UK · May 5, 2022

Israel says Putin apologized over his FM's Holocaust remarks

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett says he accepted an apology from Russian President Vladimir Putin for controversial remarks about the Holocaust made by Moscow’s top diplomat

The Independent UK · May 5, 2022

Dundee student selected as UK’s only Holocaust memorial ambassador

Daniel Pukkila - a fourth year at Abertay University - has been paired with a child survivor born in 1940.

Daily Record · May 4, 2022

Death row inmate’s dreadful dilemma: lethal drugs or cyanide used by Nazis

Lawyers for Frank Atwood urge him not to choose as method of execution poison gas used to murder millions during Holocaust

The Guardian - US · May 4, 2022

Russia accuses Israel of backing ‘neo-Nazis’ in Kyiv as diplomatic row grows

Moscow hits back at Israeli criticism of Sergei Lavrov’s claim that Adolf Hitler ‘had Jewish blood’

The Guardian - UK · May 3, 2022