To Ukrainian Jews, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s false claims that Kyiv is controlled by American-sponsored neo-Nazis is an insult to the memory of the Holocaust, especially now that Moscow is indiscriminately shelling Ukrainian cities
‘The Russian army that was beating the Nazis in 1941 is bombing civilians in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odessa today,’ Says Kyiv RabbiManu Brabo for The Wall Street Journalstruck the TV tower in Kyiv’s Babyn Yar area, the site of one of the worst massacres during the Holocaust, Vitali Senchenko phoned his cousin in Israel, trying to get his family out of the city.
“The Babyn Yar attack was the last straw,” Mr. Senchenko, a cyber defense expert, said Wednesday in the basement of a synagogue in Kyiv’s Podil area as he prepared to part with his wife Kateryna and their two children, aged two years old and one month. They were to leave on an evacuation convoy organized by the Jewish community.
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