EXPLAINED: 5 - The Real Truth

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 · Mar 10, 2022

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…

Tribune News Service · Mar 10, 2022

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 · Mar 9, 2022

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 · Mar 3, 2022

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 · Mar 3, 2022

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 · Mar 3, 2022

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 · Mar 2, 2022

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 · Mar 2, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Mar 2, 2022

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'

Irish Mirror · Mar 2, 2022