With Holocaust Remembrance Day dawning last Saturday, it’s important to remember that the Nazis could not have implemented the Shoah without widespread assistance from local collaborators. While Western European nations have largely come to grips with the fact that some of their citizens collaborated with the Nazis, some countries in Eastern Europe remain reluctant to fully confront the darker aspects of their nation’s World War II history.
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Josh Cohen: Remembering the Holocaust in Ukraine
(LtoR) German President Joachim Gauck, Hungary's President Janos Ader, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his wife Maryna Poroshenko, European Council President Donald Tusk and Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman pay tribute after placing candles at the Menorah-shaped memorial dedicated to the victims of the Babyn Yar massacre during the commemoration ceremony on the 75th anniversary in Kyiv on Sept. 29, 2016.
