Monday, May 24, 2004

Jewish graves are desecrated in Kiev. No wonder my great-grandparents left there 90 years ago. SSDD.

50 graves vandalized in Kiev

"Headstones were broken, heavy old stones were thrown about – all that testifies to the fact that the crime was committed by a large group," he said. "It was an awful picture." Eduard Doks, spokesman for the Sokhnut Jewish community in Kiev, also described it an anti-Semitic act.
Interior Ministry spokesman Viktor Korchinsky, however, denied any acts of vandalism, saying the graves were destroyed "all by themselves, because they were too old."...

In 2002, the central synagogue in Kiev was attacked and dozens of Jewish gravestones were vandalized. Jewish leaders were angered by the Ukrainian government's lack of an official statement condemning the actions.






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