Many of Vladimir Putin’s supporters only ten days ago were expressing concern that he had not launched his campaign with the kind of speeches that would mobilize the population around his plans for the next six years. But such people may...
When we ask why historical responsibility, why German historical responsibility, I want to begin from the universal point of view. I’m not coming to you as an American saying “we’ve understood our past and th6.erefore...
Relations between Ukraine and Israel are distant and close at the same time. As a home for the largest Jewish community in Europe before the World War II, Ukraine was a cradle of Jewish culture and homeland of prominent Jewish artists,...
Professor Philippe de Lara gave a lecture about the unique nature of the two genocides: the Holocaust as a crime against the Jewish people and the Holodomor as a crime against the Ukrainian people. The Kremlin intended Holodomor to...
On May 22 Volodymyr Katriuk, a Ukrainian World War II veteran and a suspected participant in the massacre of the 186 inhabitants of the Belarusian village of Khatyn 1 passed away in Canada. For years his name had been at the center of a...
Five memorials for Holocaust victims are being dedicated in western Ukraine. They are intended to pay respect to around one million people who were murdered in mass executions and in concentration camps. The Lviv city hall was bathed in...
April 15th, 2015 is known in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (יום השואה) or a “Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day.” It is observed as a day of commemoration for the approximately six million Jews who perished in the...
In the year since Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution, Russia has done much to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty. It annexed Crimea and began a war along Russia’s border with Ukraine. In his remarks from a March 2, 2015 conference entitled...
On January 27, 2015, delegations from 40 world countries will arrive in the Polish town of Oświęcim to participate in the ceremonies which will take place in the museum on the territory of the former German concentration camp,...
On 11 October, a three-day meeting of the Synod, or church council, of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, finished in Istanbul. It gave further confirmation that Ukraine is on the path to receiving church independence from Moscow – and healing...
