How Do Putin and Zelensky Get the Holocaust So Wrong?

It's a piece of the Holocaust that even scholars misunderstand, or neglect altogether. And it's a story unknown even to the descendants of a quarter-million Holocaust survivors. The United Nations Holocaust Outreach Programme hosted author and academic Mikhal Dekel on May 11 to discuss her book, In the East: How My Father and a Quarter Million Polish Jews Survived the Holocaust, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, the National Jewish Book Award and the Chautauqua Prize. Dekel's book -- part-historical, part-memoir -- presents a unique narrative about the Polish refugees fleeing the terror of the Holocaust en route to the Soviet Central Asian Republics and the Middle East.