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Associated Press

Britain’s Prince Charles appeared to snub US Vice-President Mike Pence during Thursday’s World Holocaust Forum. But both men’s offices quickly played down the incident.
A video, which was circulating widely on social media, shows the prince chatting with various dignitaries at the ceremony at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre in Jerusalem.
Charles, 71, then approaches Pence, briefly looks at him, but moves on without shaking Pence’s hand and greets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Pence stood silently as the prince walked by, but appeared to pat him gently on the back.


Pence’s office said the two men had just met for several minutes before entering the hall, and that they shook hands following Pence’s speech at the ceremony.
Buckingham Palace dismissed suggestions that the prince had ignored Pence, saying the two had a “warm and friendly chat” before the event.
“Shortly before the Yad Vashem memorial event began, the prince and Vice-President Pence had a warm and friendly chat, which is why they did not greet each other again in the room,” a statement from the office of the Prince of Wales said.
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In his address to the ceremony, where more than 40 heads of state and government were marking 75 years since the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, Prince Charles warned that “the lessons of the Holocaust are still relevant to this day”.
The forum, the largest-ever summit of its kind, drew more than 45 world leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
The three-hour event at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial sought to project a united front in commemorating the destruction of European Jewry amid a global spike in anti-Jewish violence. But from the start, it was clouded by rival national narratives of World War II’s major players.
Poland’s president, who has been criticised for his own wartime revisionism, boycotted the gathering even before it began since he was not invited to speak.
The president of Lithuania, a country seeking to diminish its own culpability while making heroes out of anti-Soviet nationalists involved in the mass killing of Jews, abruptly cancelled his participation days before the event.
And the president of Ukraine, another country with a dubious reckoning of its role in the genocide, mysteriously backed out while in Israel shortly before the ceremony began.

Putin was granted a central role even as he leads a campaign to play down the Soviet Union’s pre-war pact with the Nazis and shift responsibility for the war’s outbreak on Poland, which was invaded in 1939.
In his address, Putin highlighted the role of the Red Army in liberating Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, while singling out the collaboration by regional foes Ukraine, Lithuania and Latvia. He called them “bandits” who “often surpassed their masters in cruelty”.
In a nod toward Poland and others, he said the Holocaust would only serve as a warning to future generations if told in full, “without exemptions and omissions”.
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“Regrettably, the memory of the war today often becomes the subject of current political interests,” he said.
Putin himself has been accused of the same, shaping a narrative around his country’s “Great Patriotic War” that began in 1941 after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and ignoring the non-aggression accord the Soviets had signed two years earlier.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse


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Prince Charles appears to snub Mike Pence in viral video

Britain’s Prince Charles (left) and US Vice-President Mike Pence at the Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem on Thursday. Photo: EPA-EFE

epa08155841 Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with Russia's chief rabbi Berel Lazar (L) during the Fifth World Holocaust Forum at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, Israel, 23 January 2020. The event marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz under the title 'Remembering the Holocaust: Fighting Antisemitism' is held to preserve the memory of the Holocaust atrocities by Nazi Germany during World War II. EPA-EFE/ALEXEI NIKOLSKY /SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL MANDATORY CREDIT

Britain’s Prince Charles (left) chats with dignitaries at the World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem on Thursday, as US Vice-President Mike Pence (right) looks on. Photo: Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Centre via AFP

France’s Macron loses temper with Israeli security agents

The incident occurred during a spat between Israeli forces and Emmanuel Macron’s own security detail as he entered the Church of St Anne. Photo: AFP

French President Emmanuel Macron prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City on January 22, 2020. - World leaders are to travel to Israel this week to mark 75 years since the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, the extermination camp where the Nazis killed over a million Jews. Thousands of police officers and other security forces will deploy from today, ahead of the arrival of dignitaries including Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and US Vice President Mike Pence. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)

TOPSHOT - (COMBO) This combination of pictures created on January 22, 2020 shows French President Emmanuel Macron (top) asking the Israeli police to leave the 12th-century Church of Saint Anne in the old city of Jerusalem on January 22, 2020 and a file photo taken on October 22, 1996 of French President Jacques Chirac pushing an Israeli security man as he protest angrily over tight security surrounding his visit to the Arab part of Jerusalem's old city. (Photos by Ludovic Marin and JIM HOLLANDER / various sources / AFP)

Polish PM complains over ‘historical inaccuracies’ in Netflix Holocaust series The Devil Next Door

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Sofija Kaczan, 100, survived the Holocaust. But heroin-addicted mugger Artur Waszkiewicz broke her neck and killed her as she walked to church in England

Sofija Kaczan, a100-year-old Holocaust survivor, and the man who killed her, drug addict Artur Waszkiewic. Photos: Kaczan family / Derbyshire Police

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British royal and US vice-president were in Jerusalem for Holocaust memorial ceremony
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British royal and US vice-president were in Jerusalem for Holocaust memorial ceremony; Buckingham Palace says the two had ‘warm and friendly chat’ before event.


Prince Charles appears to snub Mike Pence in viral video

British royal and US vice-president were in Jerusalem for Holocaust memorial ceremony Buckingham Palace dismisses claims, saying the two had ‘warm and friendly chat’ before event

British royal and US vice-president were in Jerusalem for Holocaust memorial ceremony

Buckingham Palace dismisses claims, saying the two had ‘warm and friendly chat’ before event