Thanks for joining us. Welcome to the program. The European Parliament has just passed a resolution urging sanctions on russia in response to the alleged assassination plot against opposition figure. And hes got more details. 532 m. E ps voting in favor of this resolution 84 against with 72 abstentions what it could result in a is asset freezes travel bans another sign sions against those that are featured in the zante corruption videos could also lead to they also want to see an International Probe into what happened to alexa and of ali when they talk about an International Probe thats including the United Nations the European Union the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and others all to be on side with that and it talks about blocking the construction of nord stream to the gas pipeline that takes russian gas or will take russian gas under the baltic sea directly into germany earlier this week we heard from us about l. The e. U. High representative for Foreign Affai
Thanks for joining us. Welcome to the program. Other European Parliaments adopted a resolution calling for even more sanctions to be slapped on russia in response to the alleged assassination attempt against opposition figurehead Alexei Navalny russias foreign minister has responded by saying many politicians in the block are all too happy to pass a promised your judgment well before any due process has been conducted. Any discussions about the naming of the sanctions mechanisms are seen as an unhidden attempt of given in the mornings you your restrictions and you and to russian sentimental nature while at the same time that our proposals to berlin to conduct a joint investigation of the incident are continuing to be ignored the meat of pretexts the nature of the statements made in brussels makes one think there are all western partners do not wish to find out the troops while the action goals are to support the information pain unleashed in the European Union in order to ensure that t
Seated next to her is devin pendis w srks pendas. He focuses on war crime trials. And next to him is our fault director of the la paige center, paul steege. Paul is focused on history, of every day life. Foe k focusing on germany, and were going to begin by learning about our scholars and where they come from on this question and topic and then we will dive into the conversation. So for now i will go back to jen for, allow me to welcome you to the la paige center. Tell me about your research and area of study. Im the executive director for the rowan center for Holocaust Research and human rights. We have multiple foci. One of the questions that were asked very often is so what. Were learning about other genocides, and what can we do about it now. So we made a decision to switch our emphasis so we could thans so what question that so many students have. My own research focuses on transgenerational holiday, and i came by way of education. I was an education professor, before that element
Topics, but it also is led by some of the worlds leading scholars, period. It is of course the holocaust. For this session, weve asked dr. Alexander richi who serves of the con veener of our president ial countslers to lead dr. Gare hard weinberg and jeff mcgargy. Alex has been involved with the museum since her first appearance at our 2014 dproens, and in those five years weve kept her quite busy. Many meetings, committees and also as you heard this morning, leading a lot of our educational travel tours. She has a deep and personal connection to the holocaust, as her fatherinlaw, who im sure shes going to explain more about, was himself in auschwitz during world war ii. So to hear the latest in holocaust scholarship and look at what was going on in june 1944, its my pleasure to ask dr. Richie to come up. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you so much. This is indeed a topic very, very close to my heart. As most of you know i live in warsaw in poland, as you just heard my fatherinlaw was in
The true initiator of the nazi bacchanalia remains in the shadows, however, as you know, the teaching of light always finds a way, not the teaching of darkness, so now well just help her a little , meet christif freeland, deputy Prime Minister of canada and her ghosts of the past, heir tootie dolls, maria is with you butina, we begin, the moment of glory that befell the canadian pensioner during zelskys tour of america is a shame for all participants in this performance on the stage of the Canadian Parliament. His name is yaroslav gonko. He is a ukrainian hero, a canadian hero, and we we thank him for his service. Thank you. An ordinary fascist, and now a ukrainian canadian hero, yaroslav gunko, by his own admission, was already preparing to quietly go into the world, but 98 years old, somehow, and the applause of canadian deputies disrupted his plans. Was born. In 1925 near ternopil, in 1943 eighteenyearold yaroslav joined the volunteer division of the sss glechin, its backbone consis