Ukraine

Esther Cohen

6 prominent Holocaust survivors have died in Europe over the past month

Their passing has been buried under the constant stream of breaking political and COVID-19 news.

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Zoriy Fine says he was fired in 2017 from a state university for protesting the honoring of a man believed to have led perpetrators of pogroms. (Courtesy of Fine)

Ukrainian Jewish professor says he was fired for protesting statue of leader whose troops killed Jews

The case is a rare example of real-life implications stemming from the heated debate in Ukraine on nationalist memory.

Prominent rabbis pray for Ukrainian President Zelensky, who is recovering from COVID-19

The organizer of the prayers, which were sent by video to Zelensky, said the president is “an important friend to the Jewish community.”

Stray dogs roam the Babi Yar monument on March 14, 2016 in Kiev, where Nazis and local collaborators murdered 30,000 Jews in 1941. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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New synagogue will open on Nazi killing grounds of Babyn Yar in Ukraine

A Jewish teenager was lightly wounded in a suspected knifing attack in Uman, Ukraine on Oct. 1`7, 2020. (Courtesy of the United Jewish Community of Ukraine)

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Jewish teenager lightly wounded in attack in Uman, Ukraine

A woman wearing a Ukrainian flag performs an ultranationalist gesture while marching at an event honoring collaborators with Nazi Germany in Kyiv, Ukraine on Oct. 14, 2020. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Nationalist marchers in Kyiv say Ukraine is under ‘occupation’ by ‘Jewish clan’

Mordechai and Sheindle Sova were shot in 1941 on a central street of Kyiv, Ukraine and buried in a ditch after they ignored the order to gather to be murdered at Babyn Yar. (Courtesy of Igor Kulakov and the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center.)

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Nearly 80 years after the Babyn Yar massacre, Ukrainian researchers lift victims out of anonymity

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Holocaust monuments vandalized in Russia and Romania

Belarusian soldier guard the border to Ukraine against hundreds of Jewish pilgrims on Sept, 15, 2020. (Courtey of Shahar Eliyahu)

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The Red Cross is aiding hundreds of Jewish pilgrims who have amassed at Ukraine’s closed borders

Rabbi Yonatan Markovitch, left, holds up a medal and a certificate he received at the parliament of Ukraine in Kyiv on Sept. 7, 2020. (Courtesy of Markovitch)

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Kyiv rabbi makes history with Ukraine parliament honor

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