Zelensky to Kissinger: The world didn’t adapt to the Nazis

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Sandler has traveled extensively throughout the world on behalf of the JDC to help communities in need. Her admiration for the JDC is evident. “What’s made their work so impactful is that they have been on the ground in the FSU [former Soviet Union], Ukraine, and all the surrounding countries since it was founded in 1914.”

According to JDC’s website, in the past three months, the organization has had significant accomplishments in aiding refugees from Ukraine and many other aspects of humanitarian work including fielding calls through its Hesed social welfare network and 24/7 emergency hotline system; providing refugees with vital necessities such as food, medicine, and psychosocial support; evacuating more than 12,000 Jews fleeing violence in Ukraine; delivering more than 300 tons of humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Jews in Ukraine and those who have fled to Moldova (including essentials like food and medicine); hosting refugees and local community members at communal Passover seders across Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Moldova, and Hungary; and aiding refugees at JDC-NATAN, a 24/7 medical clinic set up in Poland’s largest humanitarian aid center—just eight miles from the Ukraine border. JDC has also delivered hundreds of wheelchairs and crutches to those with disabilities, as well as telemedicine devices that can provide medical care to thousands of sick and injured Ukrainians.

JDC is an overseas partner of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater and received funding to assist Ukrainians through the Tidewater Ukraine Emergency Campaign.

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Zelensky to Kissinger: The world didn’t adapt to the Nazis, we’re not adapting to Putin

(JTA) Ukraine’s Jewish president Volodymyr Zelensky brought up the Holocaust to snap back at former Jewish U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who argued last month at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that Ukraine should give up its hope to reclaim territory that Russia annexed in 2014 in the interest of stopping the current war as soon as possible.

Henry Kissinger said that Ukraine should end the war by accepting the “status quo ante”—in other words, Russia’s effective 2014 annexation of territories in eastern Ukraine.

“In my view, movement towards negotiations and negotiations on peace need to begin in the next two months so that the outcome of the war should be outlined,” he said.

Zelensky slammed the suggestion in remarks translated into English by his office.

“No matter what the Russian state does, there is always someone who says: let’s take its interests into account. This year in Davos it was heard again,” Zelensky said. “Still in Davos, for example, Mr. Kissinger emerges from the deep past and says that a piece of Ukraine should be given to Russia. So that there is no alienation of Russia from Europe.”

Zelensky added: “It seems that Mr. Kissinger’s calendar is not 2022, but 1938, and he thought he was talking to an audience not in Davos, but in Munich of that time.”

The 1938 reference alludes to the agreement in Munich that year by Western European powers to allow Adolf Hitler to claim Czechoslovakia, in the hopes of containing his ambitions. Hitler then invaded Poland the next year, launching World War II.

Zelensky then brought up Kissinger’s personal Holocaust past.

“By the way, in the real year 1938, when Mr. Kissinger’s family was fleeing Nazi Germany, he was 15 years old, and he understood everything perfectly,” Zelensky said. “And nobody heard from him then that it was necessary to adapt to the Nazis instead of fleeing them or fighting them.”

Kissinger, 98, fled Nazi Germany as a youth, and when he was of age enlisted in the U.S. Army and fought Nazis in Germany. He went on to serve as the first Jewish secretary of state, from 1973 to 1977.

“In the real year 1938, when Mr. Kissinger’s family was fleeing Nazi Germany…nobody heard from him then that it was necessary to adapt to the Nazis instead of fleeing them or fighting them.”

Volodymyr Zelensky, August 26, 2019