He was the first to call it what it was. Sixty-five years ago this month, on Sept. 20, 1953, Dr. Raphael Lemkin, a legal scholar, spoke in New York City about Stalin’s four-pronged offensive against Ukraine during the 1930s.
Unveiling of a multilingual plaque honouring Dr. Raphael Lemkin
Source: Ukrainian Institute of America Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish RelationsOn Thursday, 20 September 2018, the Ukrainian Institute of America and the Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation will be unveiling a multilingual plaque (English, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Yiddish) honouring Dr. Raphael Lemkin, the “father of the UN Genocide Convention,” specifically in reference to the speech he gave in New York City (20 September 1953) acknowledging the famine of 1932-33 as a Soviet genocide.
Ukrainian Christians have put things in order in the Jewish cemetery
Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish RelationsIn the village of Rafalivka in the northern Rivne region of Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian residents on their own initiative have conducted a community clean-up of the abandoned Jewish cemetery. Stepan Kilyushyk, the presbyter…
Mayor of Dnipro: “The Jewish community is a pearl of the city”
Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish RelationsBorys Filatov, who is in his third year as the head of the city administration of Dnipro, was the only guest from Ukraine at the world forum of mayors in Jerusalem in February 2018. The…
Haaretz: New honors for the Polish sewer worker who saved Jews from the Nazis
Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish RelationsAn anonymous iron gate on a main city street in Lviv, Ukraine. A hefty blow from the shoulder of a neighbor, and we gain access to an inner courtyard of the residential building.
Yad Vashem: A Tribute to Heroes
Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish RelationsToday, in an emotional and gripping ceremony at Yad Vashem, Petro and Kateryna Durniak from Ukraine were posthumously honored as Righteous among the Nations.
“Righteous Among the Nations” Award Ceremony in Lviv
Posted In: Ukrainian-Jewish RelationsThe “Righteous Among the Nations’ award ceremony, organized by the Embassy of Israel in Ukraine and attended by Ambassador Eliab Byelotserkovski, took place in Lviv on November 7th. The award is dedicated to non-Jews who…