An autonomous region within Ukraine honored Jews who died during the Holocaust. On Saturday, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea marked the Day of Remembrance of Krymchak and Jewish Victims of Nazism. Krymchaks, a subethnic group of Turkic-speaking Crimean Jews who numbered about 10,000 before World War II, were almost entirely exterminated during the Holocaust, along with thousands of Crimea’s prewar Ashkenazi Jews.
Harvard’s president will receive an honorary doctorate from Hebrew University. Lawrence Summers, a former U.S. treasury secretary, will receive the honor Sunday in Jerusalem.
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