Ukraine ambassador among speakers at US Holocaust Museum dinner

CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer, who attended the event, took to Twitter following the evening to thank Markarova for “her very strong words.”

MAY 5, 2022 05:34

Updated: MAY 5, 2022 17:26

Ukraine's ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova walks between meetings with members of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, US. February 28, 2022. (photo credit: REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST) — Ukraine's ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova walks between meetings with members of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, US. February 28, 2022.

(photo credit: REUTERS/JONATHAN ERNST)

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington hosted its annual National Tribute Dinner on Monday night against the backdrop of Russia’s ongoing barrage of missiles against Ukraine.

“With the power of truth held in our vast collections, our scholarship and survivors’ own memories, we are confronting the dangerous distortion and misuse of this history – most recently to justify Russia’s war against Ukraine,” the museum said in a statement.

Oksana Markarova, ambassador of Ukraine to the US, was one of the speakers.

CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer, who attended the event, took to Twitter following the evening to thank Markarova for “her very strong words.”

I thanked Ukraine’s Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova @OMarkarova for her very strong words that she delivered at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s 2022 National Tribute Dinner here in Washington last night. pic.twitter.com/iTUQ788vV1
— Wolf Blitzer (@wolfblitzer) May 3, 2022

Heightened anxiety and grief among Holocaust survivors has been reported since Russia launched its war against its southwestern neighbor on February 24 as many survivors feel as if they are being traumatized again by the invasion.