Ukrainian government signs law introducing criminal penalties for antisemitism

Ukraine and Europe’s designation of the branch as a terrorist group follows the Iranian government’s brutal crackdown on the recent anti-regime protests that erupted across the country.

The names, uncovered through newly opened archives in Ukraine, were revealed at a memorial ceremony in Jerusalem organized by the Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center in Kyiv and March of the Living.

The decision designates the site as a historic location preserving the memory of the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement. As a result, the grave will now receive the country’s highest level of protection granted to national landmarks.

The two-year initiative will focus on digitising at-risk and damaged documents from ten memory institutions, training over 50 culture professionals in preservation techniques.

The Babyn Yar tragedy was a mass murder of nearly 34,000 Jews by Nazi forces over two days in September 1941, near Kyiv, as part of the Holocaust.

In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, Inna Ioffe, the Director of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine (JCU), sheds light on the challenges and resilience of Ukraine’s Jewish community.

Translating second-century Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Haggadah into modern Ukrainian was no simple task. The difficulties began as early as the first letter of the word Haggadah.

Uman serves as the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, the founder of the Breslov Hasidic movement, making it an important pilgrimage site for his followers during the holiday.

The event was attended by local government representatives, ambassadors, military officers and senior government officials.

Bogorad was recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Among the Nations, after she saved a Ukrainian soldier of Jewish origin during World War II. 

Thousands of Jewish pilgrims traveled to central Ukraine to mark the Jewish new year. The pilgrims converged on the small city of Uman, the burial site of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, a revered Hasidic rabbi who died in 1810.

The testimony of Holocaust survivor Vanda Obiedkova, who died in Mariupol on April 4, has been shared by the Shoah Foundation.