Holocaust memorial directors in Israel and Germany protested a proposed German law they say equates suffering under the Nazis with Communist-inflicted pain. Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, wrote an open letter to Angela Merkel, leader of the conservative Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union.
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