Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1941, the Nazis carried out executions at Babi Yar, as thousands of Jews were buried in a ravine near the Ukrainian city of Kiev. The Nazis had instructed all 175,000 Jews of Kiev to report to the cemetery. Most thought they would be deported. Yet the Nazis killed the Jews in retaliation for a series of bombings against German installations (though a secret Russian...
Ukrainians Recall Memories of the Holocaust
From NY Sun: From the porch of her mud hut, Vera Filonok saw tens of thousands of Jews shot, thrown in a ravine, and set on fire. Many were still alive, and they writhed in the flames “like flies and worms.” The memories of what she saw in 1941 have seared her soul for six decades, but until recently, she had talked about it with no one except neighbors in her remote Ukrainian village...
65th anniversary of Sebastopol massacre marked in Ukraine
Received by email.65th anniversary of Sebastopol massacre marked in Ukraine18 July 2007In the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Sebastopol, the 65th anniversary of the Nazi massacre of Jews during World War II has been commemorated. Holocaust survivors, local officials and Jews from Crimea marked the anniversary on Sunday in a ceremony near the city’s Holocaust memorial. More than 4,200 citizens of...
Ukrainian MP slams sale of antisemitic publications
Ukrainian Jewish lawmaker Alexander Feldman called on the authorities to stop the sale of antisemitic literature, such as the notorious tsarist-era forgery, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” in the country’s parliament, the Russian Jewish web site Jewish.ru reported earlier this month. Feldman charged that the publications got into the parliament illegally, due to pressures exerted by “some...
“This Sukkot we are afraid”
Tensions are running high among members of the Jewish community in Prague on the eve of the Sukkot holiday, this following the publication of the report on a Muslim’s plot to kidnap dozens of Jews in Prague and hold them hostage before murdering them. Please pray for the Jews of Europe.
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