A prominent Jewish leader and member of Ukraine’s parliament received a top national honor. President Viktor Yuschenko awarded Aleksandr Feldman the Order of Merit of first degree on Nov. 22 for his “prominent personal contribution to the Holodomor 1932-1933 history research in Ukraine and active public work to perpetuate the memory of the tragedy’s victims.†Feldman, 47, heads the Jewish Foundation of Ukraine and International Center for Tolerance. Feldman openly backed Yuschenko’s call on Israel to recognize Holodomor, the great famine that killed millions of Ukrainians during 1932-33, as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people and organized Ukraine’s Holodomor exhibition in Israel in September. He accompanied Yuschenko on his state visit to Israel this month. Feldman is a well-known politician, advocate of Jewish interests in the Ukrainian parliament and philanthropist. Previously he had received the Order of Merit of second degree and third degree.
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