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Boris Johnson says killing of Holocaust survivor Boris Romantschenko an ‘appalling tragedy’

Boris Johnson has labelled the killing of a Holocaust survivor in a Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv an “appalling tragedy”.

Evening Standard

Holocaust survivor, 96, killed after Russian attack on Kharkiv

Boris Romantschenko survived four camps during the Second World War

Evening Standard

Wollongong Art Gallery investigates donor Bob Sredersas for Holocaust links

The Wollongong Art Gallery is grappling with shock revelations a prize donor with a gallery named after him was likely a Nazi collaborator before emigrating to Australia in 1950 from Lithuania.

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WWII Holocaust survivor killed in Ukraine's Kharkiv

He survived the Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II. He survived the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp in the same war. And the Bergen-Belsen camp.

Reuters

Russian attack on Kharkiv kills Holocaust survivor, 96

Boris Romanchenko died after rocket hit building where he lived in Ukrainian city

The Guardian - UK

Holocaust survivor, 96, killed by shelling in Ukraine after surviving four concentration camps

Boris Romanchenko was killed by a missile in Kharkiv 77 years after the end of the Second World War

The Independent UK

100-year-old Holocaust survivor finds parallels in Russia’s Ukraine invasion

Ella Blumenthal was just 18 when her happy life in Poland turned into a nightmare most people only learn about in history books.

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US declares Myanmar army committed genocide against Rohingya

Antony Blinken says evidence shows military had ‘clear intent’ to commit genocide in Myanmar.

Al Jazeera

Zelenskyy evokes Holocaust as he appeals to Israel for aid

Ukraine’s president has called on Israel to take a stronger stand against Russia in an emotional appeal that compared Russia’s invasion of his country to the actions of Nazi Germany

The Independent UK

Zelensky says time for Israel to scrap neutrality and back Ukraine

Jerusalem (AFP) - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday urged Israel to abandon its effort to maintain neutrality following Russia's invasion, saying the time had come for the Jewish state to firmly back his country.

AFP

‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?

The steel city knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob Sredersas

The Guardian - AU

Grassroots groups help rescue Holocaust survivors in Ukraine

Several grassroots groups and volunteers as far away as Los Angeles are working to extricate elderly Holocaust survivors from Ukraine

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Why Putin uses WWII to justify war with Ukraine

Vladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government

The Independent UK

Commentary: Watching bombs fall on Kyiv, the place I used to call home

As the Russian invasion moves in on Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, bombs are hitting close to the places I once called home. When I first heard that a missile struck a TV tower close to Babyn Yar in Kyiv, I thought: “That used to be my park.” Because of this attack,…

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The Guardian - UK

Imperial War Museum in London to keep donation from Roman Abramovich

Museum says decision to retain funding for Holocaust Galleries complies with UK sanctions against Russian oligarch

The Independent UK

Auschwitz survivor Leon Schwarzbaum dies at 101 in Germany

Leon Scharzbaum, a survivor of the Nazis’ death camp at Auschwitz and lifelong fighter for justice for the victims of the Holocaust, has died

Reuters

Weary refugees from Ukraine find shelter near Auschwitz

A youth education centre near Auschwitz dedicated to preserving memories of World War Two and the Holocaust has opened its doors to help refugees fleeing war in the present.

Tribune News Service

Living history: New Spielberg project anticipates questions to Holocaust survivors

DANIA BEACH, Fla. -- Ask Stella Sonnenschein anything.

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Ukraine's Jewish ex-PM urges stronger Israeli response to Russia

Jerusalem (AFP) - Former Ukrainian premier Volodymyr Groysman, who lost much of his family in the Holocaust, compared Russia's invasion of his country to Nazism and said the West and Israel needed to do more in response.

AFP

Holocaust memorial suspends ties with Chelsea's Abramovich

Jerusalem (AFP) - Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial announced Thursday it has suspended ties with Roman Abramovich, the Russian billionaire owner of Chelsea FC and major donor facing sanctions worldwide following the invasion of Ukraine.

Reuters

Zelenskiy to address Israeli parliament, asks to speak to Holocaust centre

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will address Israel's parliament about the Russian invasion of his country and has asked to deliver remarks by video to its main Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, officials said on Thursday.

Financial Times

Russia, Ukraine and the spectre of 1941

Putin’s army is inadvertently highlighting the parallels, bombing a Holocaust memorial and rerunning the destruction of Kharkiv

Tribune News Service

Commentary: The false promise of autocracy

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shocked the world. It should not have. Vladimir Putin has been threatening Ukraine for years. To support those threats, Russian media has dutifully featured ludicrous, fabricated tales of Ukrainian misdeeds and even atrocities against beleaguered Russians, and he has asserted that a nation with a Jewish…

Daily Mirror

Jimmy Carr to return for new series of Channel 4 show despite fury over Holocaust joke

Jimmy Carr will return to host game show I Literally Just Told You on Channel 4 following controversy surrounding a joke that he had made during a stand-up special on Netflix

The Independent UK

Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron dies at 99 in Berlin

Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron has died at age 99

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