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Anton Drobovych, appointed to head the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory in December 2019. (Courtesy Institute of National Memory)
June 23, 2020, 4:03 am
Ukraine’s new memory czar tones down glorification of war criminals
Institute for National Memory chief Anton Drobovych rejects idealization of Nazi collaborators, but stops short of repudiating Ukraine’s far-right 20th century nationalists
By Sam Sokol
AfD Federal Chairman Alexander Gauland delivers a speech during the official beginning of the far-right Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) state election campaign in Arnstadt, Germany, on September 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
May 7, 2020, 8:59 am
German far-right politician slammed for calling Nazi defeat ‘an ambivalent day’
Alternative for Germany’s Alexander Gauland says end of conflict marked a ‘loss of the possibility to shape things’ and should not be made a holiday
By AP
The statue of Soviet World War II commander Marshall Ivan Stepanovic Konev is loaded onto a truck after its removal from its site in Prague, Czech Republic on April 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
April 28, 2020, 3:22 pm
Prague mayor under protection after reports of Russian plot
Moscow angry as Zdenek Hrib oversees removal of Cold War-era statue dedicated to Soviet who played role in 1968 crackdown directed by Kremlin
By AFP
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem on January 23, 2020. (Abir Sultan/Pool/AFP)
February 7, 2020, 3:44 am
Scholars urge transparency to restore Yad Vashem credibility after Putin fiasco
Holocaust memorial has apologized for revisionist videos shown at World Holocaust Forum but won’t say who produced, or vetted, the pro-Russian content; Forum also keeping mum
By Sam Sokol
Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine on January 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 2, 2020, 9:41 pm
In row over Holocaust history, Israel and Poland issue joint critique of Ukraine
Ambassadors of the two countries decry the glorification of wartime Ukrainian nationalists ‘who promoted… ethnic cleansing’ of Jews and Poles
By Sam Sokol
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks with the media at the end of an EU summit in Brussels, on December 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
December 29, 2019, 11:26 pm
Polish PM accuses Putin of lying about outbreak of WWII
Russian president, whose Soviet predecessors invaded Poland in coordination with Nazi Germany, argues that Western collusion with Hitler paved way for the global conflict
By Vanessa Gera
The Holocaust memorial in the Ponar Forest near Vilnius, Lithuania. (Photo/Ezra Wolfinger, Nova)
October 30, 2019, 8:20 am
Lithuania’s Holocaust record is an ‘open wound,’ Israeli envoy says in Vilnius
Jerusalem has come under criticism from historians in recent years for failing to call out state-sponsored revisionism by its allies in Eastern Europe and the Baltics
By Cnaan Liphshiz
In this January 1, 2019, file photo, activists of various nationalist parties carry torches, Ukrainian national flags and a portrait of Stepan Bandera during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
August 31, 2019, 2:06 am
Grandson of Ukrainian fascist reckons with a legacy of Nazi collaboration
Steve Bandera’s grandfather Stepan led a movement whose followers killed tens of thousands of Jews and Poles
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, right, stand at Babi Yar ravine where Nazi troops murdered tens of thousands of Jews during WWII, in Kyiv, Ukraine, August 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Zoya Shu)
August 22, 2019, 11:21 am
Netanyahu’s praise of Kyiv’s Holocaust remembrance only tells part of the story
Recent years have seen efforts to reframe Ukraine’s involvement in Nazi atrocities; local Jewish groups say its historical memory policy is deeply problematic and revisionist
By Sam Sokol
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