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- He had an “ordinary Soviet Jewish upbringing.” Zelensky told the Times of Israel in early 2020, on the eve of visiting Israel to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, that his family was typical of Soviet Jews in the 1980s when he was growing up.
- He grew up in what was once known as the “Pale of Settlement.” Like much of Ukraine, Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih is located in the only region of the Russian Empire where Jews were permitted to live.
- As with most Ukrainian Jews, the Holocaust is part of his story. Zelensky has said that his great-grandfather and three of his grandfather’s brothers died as a result of the Nazi invasion of Ukrainian territory.
- He says being Jewish is a small part of his identity. Zelensky rarely discusses his Jewish identity publicly, and by all accounts it was not a prominent part of his campaign, even by his detractors.
May 5, 2023 · Olena Zelenska made her first public appearance since the war began, meeting with Jill Biden in Uzhhorod on May 8, 2022. Her husband lives in the President's office, and she cannot stay with...
Jun 20, 2023 · On the second day of her visit to the State of Israel, the wife of the President of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, visited Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Memorial Complex in Jerusalem, founded in 1953 to perpetuate the memory of Jewish victims of Nazism.
Zelenskyy is the first Jewish president of Ukraine; with Volodymyr Groysman as prime minister, Ukraine became the first country other than Israel to simultaneously have a Jewish head of state and head of government.
Mar 12, 2022 · Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena Zelenska have proven they have a marriage few others can compare to. Since the conflict began, Olena has refused to leave her husband's side in Ukraine despite their family being the number one target for Russian forces.
Mar 2, 2022 · Who is Olena Zelenska, Ukraine’s first lady and Volodymyr Zelensky’s wife? When the president said that Moscow had made him ‘target No. 1,’ he noted that his family was ‘target No. 2 ...
Jul 7, 2022 · Neither did her husband Volodymyr Zelensky. The President of Ukraine had seen the intelligence reports—the satellite images, the intercepted phone and radio traffic—indicating the Russians ...
