holding the hand of an Israeli girl during a reunion at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem

Vladimir Putin told the world in the lead-up to Thursday’s attacks on Ukraine that his operation aims to “ denazify ” Ukraine, a country with a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.... The Holocaust, World War II and Nazism have been important tools for Putin in his bid to legitimize Russia’s moves in Ukraine, but historians see their use as disinformation and a cynical ploy to further the Russian leader’s aims...

Vladimir Putin told the world in the lead-up to Thursday’s attacks on Ukraine that his operation aims to “ denazify ” Ukraine, a country with a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.... The Holocaust, World War II and Nazism have been important tools for Putin in his bid to legitimize Russia’s moves in Ukraine, but historians see their use as disinformation and a cynical ploy to further the Russian leader’s aims...

Vladimir Putin on Friday 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 Holocaust, World War II and Nazism have been important tools for Putin in his bid to legitimize Russia’s war in Ukraine, but historians see their use as disinformation and a cynical ploy to further the Russian leader’s aims.... Some Ukrainian nationalists welco

In that same spirit, we must also stand strong against the leading state purveyor of anti-Semitism, against the one government in the world that denies the Holocaust as a matter of state policy and threatens to wipe Israel off the map.... All three are former Soviet republics that are now Western allies.... “ The memory of the Holocaust will serve as a lesson and a warning for the future only if it’s full, without exemptions and omissions....

Billionaire Moshe Kantor has severed his longstanding ties to Tel Aviv University — joining a growing list of Russian Jewish oligarchs who have scaled back their philanthropic activities after coming under international sanctions for their ties to President Vladimir Putin.... 24. Kantor, a Russian fertilizer magnate who also holds British citizenship, served as the longtime president of the European Jewish Congress, emerging as an outspoken fighter against antisemitism.... But after the United

Prince Charles has written the foreword to the upcoming memoir of Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert, which she co-penned with her great-grandson Dov Forman.... In his message, the Prince of Wales spoke about the power Holocaust survivors have to" transform history into memory" and making what may already appear like a distant past" present".In his foreword, Prince Charles recalled the many occasions he has had to speak to survivors about the horrors perpetrated by Nazis. Among them, he included an

He spoke after leaders in both Ukraine and Russia drew parallels between their ongoing war and the genocide during World War II.... “ No event in history, cruel as it may have been, is comparable to the extermination of Europe’s Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators." Bennett's speech, coming on one of Israel's most solemn days of the year, came in a deeply personal context as well.... Israeli authorities tightened security around the premier and his family and were investigating....

Local media reported that photos posted on the school’s Facebook page, which appear to have been deleted, also showed a student with a Hitler-like mustache. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement Some observers say the incident may be a symptom of a bigger problem.... ” said Federico Finchelstein, a scholar at New York’s New School for Social Research who studies fascism in Latin America.... But there is a small but growing number of Jewish people, often Christian evangelicals, who

Many have good working relations with the Kremlin, and at least four--Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and Viktor Vekselberg--have been sanctioned internationally because of their purported connections to Putin.... Israel, which has emerged as an unlikely mediator between Ukraine and Russia, has not joined the sanctions imposed by the U.S., Britain, European Union and others.... In recent years, a growing number of tycoons from the former Soviet Union have joined t