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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.

Reuters

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

Financial Times

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…

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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

Daily Mirror

Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron dies at 99 in Berlin

Holocaust survivor Inge Deutschkron has died at age 99

The Independent UK

Calls for Home Secretary to tackle delays in processing Ukraine refugees

It comes after reports of a 90-year-old holocaust survivor trying to be reunited with family in London.

The Independent UK

International Women’s Day: 22 amazing London women changing the world in 2022

From student climate activists to retired Holocaust survivors, Katie Strick meets some of the capital’s most inspiring female movers and shakers

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KY lawmaker apologizes for equating abortion pills with gas that killed Jews during Holocaust

During a House floor debate on a bill to further restrict abortion in Kentucky on Wednesday, Republican Rep. Danny Bentley made false claims about Jewish people and the Holocaust, including claiming that an abortion-inducing pill was derived from the same poison gas used to kill millions of Jews.

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Kentucky politician sparks outrage with comments on Jewish women’s sex in error-laden argument against abortion

The GOP lawmaker suggested an abortion pill was originally used by Nazis to kill Jewish people in concentration camps

The Independent UK

Ukraine war: Putin's 'denazification' campaign hits Babyn Yar holocaust memorial to 33,000 murdered Jews

In late September 1941, tens of thousands of Jews from the city of Kyiv were rounded up by the Germans with the help of Ukrainian militia. They were taken to a place called Babyn Yar, meaning “old woman’s ravine” in Ukrainian. Here, they were forced to strip before being shot…

The Conversation

Holocaust survivors in area bombed by Russian forces tell Putin to call off his invasion

Holocaust survivor forced into Kyiv bomb shelter has a message for Vladimir Putin: ‘I wish for you to die’

The Independent UK

Remembering the past, looking to the future: how the war in Ukraine is changing Europe

Both sides in this war have plundered history. Vladimir Putin claims to be replaying the second world war by “denazifying” Ukraine, while his forces desecrate the Holocaust site of Babyn Yar.

The Conversation

Ukraine president asks Jewish people around world to speak against Russia

Nazism is born in silence, says Volodymyr Zelenskiy, after missile struck close to Holocaust memorial site

The Guardian - UK

Israel tries to balance backing for Ukrainians and not offending Russia

Criticism of invasion has been muted and officials yet to condemn Moscow for attack on Holocaust memorial

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Irish Mirror

Irish author John Boyne rejects The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas criticism as he opens up on sequel

'People on the internet claimed that the book is factually inaccurate, but fiction cannot be factually inaccurate'

Daily Mirror

What is Babi Yar? Russian missile causes destruction at Jewish memorial site in Kyiv

The site of a brutal Jewish massacre, Holocaust memorial Babi Yar, has suffered from nearby Russian attacks in Kyiv. Here's everything you need to know about the sacred site

The Independent UK

Germany to give $720 million to Holocaust survivors globally

An organization that handles claims on behalf of Jews who suffered under the Nazis says Germany has agreed to extend another $720 million (647 million euros) to provide supportive services for vulnerable Holocaust survivors

The Independent UK

Zelensky reacts after Russian missiles hit Holocaust memorial site: ‘What is the point of saying never again?’

Five people died and five others were injured in the attack

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Israel's Yad Vashem condemns Russian strike near Kyiv Holocaust monument

Israel's Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre voiced its "vehement condemnation" of a Russian attack on Tuesday near a Kyiv monument to Babyn Yar, site of a World War Two massacre of Jews by German occupation troops and Ukrainian auxiliaries.

Los Angeles Times

Huge Russian convoy advances on Kyiv as missile hits heart of Kharkiv

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces continued to batter targets in Ukraine on Tuesday, striking government buildings, a television tower and the country’s main Holocaust memorial, and assembling a 40-mile-long column of tanks, artillery and other military vehicles outside the capital, Kyiv, in what could be a sign of an imminent…

Reuters

Ukraine condemns Russian attack on Kyiv TV tower near Holocaust memorial site

The Ukrainian foreign ministry said Russia was barbaric for attacking on Tuesday a TV tower near a memorial site that commemorates the victims of Babyn Yar, one of the biggest single massacres of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust.

The Conversation

Putin's claim to rid Ukraine of Nazis is especially absurd given its history

Russian President Vladimir Putin justifies his war on Ukraine as a peacekeeping mission, a “denazification” of the country.

The Guardian - US

The antisemitism animating Putin’s claim to ‘denazify’ Ukraine

The Russian leader’s pretext for invasion recasts Ukraine’s Jewish president as a Nazi and Russian Christians as true victims of the Holocaust

Daily Mirror

Jimmy Carr returns to Twitter after backlash over Holocaust joke on Netflix show

The comedian has posted on the social media platform after a hiatus, following outrage over a joke he made about the death of Europe's traveller communities in the Second World War

Tribune News Service

Fla. fraternity blamed in swastika incident gets invited to Holocaust museum

Rabbi Pinny Backman said he felt saddened to hear reports of antisemitic activities last weekend involving a University of South Florida fraternity. But the leader of USF’s Chabad Jewish student center also felt called to action.

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