In Belarus, Jews helped build a restaurant next to Stalin-era graves. Protests against it have turned anti-Semitic. Opposition to the complex has become a test for the stability of the country’s authoritarian regime.
This Holocaust monument in Belarus is haunting — and subversive Designed by a Jewish architect when state anti-Semitism was unofficial policy, the Khatyn complex features a rare depiction of individual grief amid Soviet pomposity.
‘Death to Jews’ sprayed on Ukrainian synagogue In addition to the incident in Chernivtsi, a city in western Ukraine, a monument for Holocaust victims was vandalized in Belarus.
