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Jewish President of Ukraine: 1/4 of Jews Killed in Holocaust Were Ukrainian
(Times of Israel) David Horovitz - The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, 42, is the comedian who played the president in a TV sitcom called "Servant of the People" and last April was elected president of Ukraine in the real world, defeating the incumbent by a landslide 73-25%. He told me in an interview at his office in Kiev that he had been in Israel many times for comedy appearances and also has relatives there. Zelensky is coming to Israel for the events marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. "So many people who died in this tragedy [of the Holocaust] were Ukrainian Jews - starting with Babi Yar, where 150,000 Ukrainian Jews were executed. The statistical information that we have shows that one in four of the Jews who were killed in the Holocaust were Ukrainian. That is why, for Ukrainians, it is very important to honor the victims of the Holocaust."