BBC apologizes for failing to specify Jewishness of Nazi victims

Millions of non-Jewish people exterminated by the Third Reich were not mentioned at all

The BBC has apologized for failing to specify from the start that Nazi victims mentioned in its coverage of the UK’s Holocaust Memorial Day were Jewish.

Both the UK event and International Holocaust Remembrance Day are observed on January 27, the anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945.

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