University and College Union 'deeply sorry' Holocaust Memorial Day email failed to mention Jewish victims

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The union claimed the omission was the result of a 'drafting error' and sent an updated email, which referenced the six million Jewish people who were murdered.

to an updated version of the email, which added a paragraph about how the Holocaust impacted the Jewish community in Europe. The section began with an explanation that in the years leading up to the mass murders, Nazi policies and propaganda"deliberately encouraged" divisions in German society. Aryan Germans were advised to separate themselves from their German Jewish neighbors, leading to exclusionary laws and violence.

The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Auschwitz I extermination camp on November 15, 2014, in Oswiecim, Poland. On Tuesday, the University and College Union apologized for an email about Holocaust Memorial Day that omitted Jewish victims.David Hirsh, a professor at the University of London and critic of the boycott Israel movement, wrote on

Along with non-Jewish Poles, on both the original and the updated list, UCU specifically mentioned eight other groups:"asocials" which included beggars, alcoholics, drug addicts, prostitutes and pacifistsJehovah's WitnessesIn its updated email, UCU claimed the circular that was sent out on Friday that omitted Jewish people entirely was the result of"drafting errors."

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