Eastern Europe
“Let us make no mistake: Holocaust denial is still alive and kicking. Anti-Semitism still exists,” said Israel’s President Isaac Herzog.
On the 80th anniversary of the mass genocide the Nazis and their collaborators committed against Ukrainian Jews, a memorial center being built on the site will tell the story of the 1941 atrocity.
At the invitation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Israeli President Isaac Herzog will participate in events marking 80 years since the Babi Yar Massacre.
The delivery of the Israeli system of four launchers is scheduled to be finished by 2026.
“Neo-Nazi groups are trying to re-emerge, and their popularity has increased with the economic crisis. We see them as criminals who deny the Holocaust and promote neo-Nazi ideas; they have no place at all in Greek society,” said Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias.
Materials collected by Emmanuel Diamant and Joseph Schneider arrived at the National Library of Israel’s Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog is to take part in an official ceremony inaugurating Kyiv’s Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
The new law defines anti-Semitism as hatred of Jews, including attacks, false or hateful statements and denying the mass extermination of Ukrainian Jewry during the Holocaust.
A year after the establishment of official relations, Ines Demiri says her embassy aims “to deepen bilateral cooperation between the Republic of Kosovo and the State of Israel in all areas of interest for the mutual benefit of citizens in both countries.”
The human bones were found in a basement, thought to have resulted from a Jew hiding from German forces that destroyed the area during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
“Michael [Sidko]’s story is intertwined with the story of the State of Israel, which arose from the ashes of the Holocaust, in order to stop the shedding of Jewish blood and to build a home for the Jewish people in the land of their ancestors,” said Speaker of the Knesset Mickey Levy.
Passed by the Nazi puppet state, they facilitated the transfer of Jewish assets to non-Jewish owners and prevented Jews from education.
