They are just doing token things to keep this in the minds of people and reinforce their story of ebil Nazis. You know what I find interesting is there was a huge drop in the number of articles related to their Holocaust for at least a year. I don't know as they gave up on this but they realized people were tired of it probably.
I think they are just doing this stuff to keep their fake news story alive.
It really does suck to do this to an elderly person but he probably won't be treated that badly other than having his name slandered.