{"id":1392853,"date":"2022-03-21T20:14:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T00:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392853"},"modified":"2022-03-21T20:14:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T00:14:40","slug":"debunking-zelenskys-outrageous-claim-that-ukraine-rescued-jews-during-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/debunking-zelenskys-outrageous-claim-that-ukraine-rescued-jews-during-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Debunking Zelensky\u2019s \u2018Outrageous\u2019 Claim That Ukraine Rescued Jews During Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdebunking-zelenskys-outrageous-claim-that-ukraine-rescued-jews-during-holocaust%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392853&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1232340892-e1647904069424.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>In a controversial speech on Sunday, Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky sparked outrage when he compared the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Holocaust as he spoke to the Israeli government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis Russian invasion of Ukraine is not just a military operation, as Moscow claims. This is a large-scale and treacherous war aimed at destroying our people. Destroying our children, our families. Our state. Our cities. Our communities. Our culture. And everything that makes Ukrainians Ukrainians. Everything that Russian troops are now destroying. Deliberately. In front of the whole world,\u201d Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/zelensky-compares-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-to-holocaust-in-speech-to-israels-government\">said<\/a>. \u201cThat is why I have the right to this parallel and to this comparison. Our history and your history. Our war for our survival and World War II.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cListen to what the Kremlin says. Just listen! There are even terms that sounded then. And this is a tragedy. When the Nazi party raided Europe and wanted to destroy everything. Destroy everyone. Wanted to conquer the nations. And leave nothing from us, nothing from you. Even the name and the trace. They called it \u2018the final solution to the Jewish issue.\u2019 You remember that. And I\u2019m sure you will never forget!\u201d Zelensky added. \u201cBut listen to what is sounding now in Moscow. Hear how these words are said again: \u2018Final solution.\u2019 But already in relation, so to speak, to us, to the \u2018Ukrainian issue.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUkrainians have made their choice. 80 years ago. They rescued Jews. That is why the Righteous Among the Nations are among us,\u201d Zelensky concluded, later. \u201cPeople of Israel, now you have such a choice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Zelensky\u2019s portrayal of history is patently inaccurate, as demonstrated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/impossible-to-rewrite-the-terrible-history-of-the-holocaust-zelensky-slammed-by-israeli-lawmakers-for-comparing-russian-invasion-to-final-solution\">response<\/a> of multiple Israeli lawmakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Between 1941 and 1944, over a million Jews living in the Soviet Union were murdered as part of Nazi Germany\u2019s \u201cFinal Solution,\u201d with the majority of those murdered in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While Zelensky claimed that Ukrainians \u201cmade their choice\u201d and \u201crescued Jews,\u201d this is only true for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yadvashem.org\/yv\/pdf-drupal\/ukraine.pdf\">comparative handful<\/a> of heroic non-Jewish Ukrainians (2,619 as of 2018) who defied the Nazi quest for the eradication of the Jewish people. According to Dieter Pohl, a German historian, approximately 100,000 Ukrainians voluntarily joined police units that directly assisted the Nazis, while others complied in other ways \u2014 such as supporting logistical efforts or directly participating in the mass murder of Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Moreover, Ukrainians were among those who joined the systematic effort to erase European Judaism in Nazi death camps. One such example was Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, who was known for extreme acts of cruelty as a guard at the extermination camp in occupied Poland. One survivor of the camp where 850,000 Jews were murdered <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/30df5b6e5cfb0aa8cd1be09ce1c0b102\"><span>referred<\/span><\/a><span> to the Ukrainian <\/span><span>\u2033the worst devil of all at Treblinka,\u201d who was known to beat, stab and mutilate prisoners. According to the survivor, Ivan the Terrible once murdered a prisoner with a carpenter\u2019s drill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Moreover, Ukraine\u2019s post-war attitude towards the Holocaust seems to lack the anti-Nazi concern claimed by Zelensky. According to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kyivpost.com\/article\/content\/ukraine-politics\/nazi-hunters-give-low-grades-to-13-countries-inclu-94616.html\"><span>Kyiv Post<\/span><\/a><span>, The Simon Wiesenthal Center said that Ukraine <\/span><span>\u201chas to the best of our knowledge never conducted a single investigation of a local Nazi war criminal, let alone prosecuted a Holocaust perpetrator,\u201d as recently as 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI appreciate the President of Ukraine and support the Ukrainian people in heart and deed, but it is impossible to rewrite the terrible history of the Holocaust,\u201d Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-701850\"><span>tweeted<\/span><\/a><span> in response to Zelensky\u2019s speech. \u201cGenocide was also committed on Ukrainian soil. The war is terrible, but the comparison to the horrors of the Holocaust and the final solution is outrageous.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf Zelensky\u2019s speech was given \u2026 in normal [non-war] times, we would have said it bordered on Holocaust denial \u2026 Every comparison between a regular war, as difficult as it may be, and the extermination of millions of Jews in gas chambers in the framework of the Final Solution, is a total distortion of history. The same is true for the claim that Ukrainians helped Jews in the Holocaust \u2026 The historic truth is that the Ukrainian people cannot be proud of its behavior in the Holocaust of the Jews,\u201d Yuval Steinitz, a Likud MK, said. \u201cNone of that changes the fact that despite the outrageous use of the Holocaust, we must continue humanitarian aid to the citizens of Ukraine suffering from the war and pray for its end to come soon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t understand Ukrainian, but if the translation I heard is accurate, Zelensky asked us to treat the Ukrainians like they treated us 80 years ago. I\u2019m sorry, but I think we will have to reject that request. We are, after all, a moral nation,\u201d said Simcha Rothman, a Religious Zionist MK, on the subject of Zelensky\u2019s reference to Ukrainians who saved Jews during the Holocaust.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Ian Haworth is a writer for The Daily Wire and contributor to Morning Wire. 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