Putin at the World Holocaust Forum
(World News Russia)

Earlier this month, some ten days after the World Holocaust Forum held at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem to commemorate the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz, the museum issued an unusual apology for a film presentation that contained `inaccuracies` and `created an unbalanced impression`-by, among other things, memory-holing the 1939 division of Poland between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union and the Soviet occupation of the Baltics in 1940. The apology letter, signed by Professor Dan Michman of Yad Vashem´s International Institute of Holocaust Research and published in Haaretz, referred to this assault on historical facts as a `regrettable mishap.` But the presentation...