Ukraine remembers the massacre of the Holocaust in the midst of the massacre that Russia is perpetrating

For a leader of Jewish descent from a country mired in Europe’s biggest war since World War IIHolocaust Remembrance Day has a special resonance.

President Zelensky presided over the ceremony at the Ukrainian Babyn Yar memorial, where the Nazis massacred 30,000 Jews. Between 1941 and 1944, about 1.5 million Ukrainian Jews were massacred by the Nazis.

In Auschwitz, across the border from the neighboring country, in Poland, the war in Ukraine was on the minds of those gathered who remembered the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis.

“Today, standing here in Auschwitz-Birkenau, I am terrified to read reports about a war that has been taking place so close to us. Russia, which liberated us here, is waging a war against the Ukraine. Why? Why Is politics like that?”, stressed Zdzislava Wlodarchyk, a former prisoner and survivor of the Nazi death camps.

For the first time, Russia was not invited to join the international commemoration at the killing site that its soldiers liberated back in the day.

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, affirmed today that Russian soldiers fight in Ukraine an evil that is the product of forgetting the lessons of history, in a message on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “Forgetting the lessons of history leads to the repetition of terrible tragedies. Proof of this are the crimes against civilians, ethnic cleansing and punitive actions committed by neo-Nazis in Ukraine,” the Kremlin chief stressed.

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