Cornel is right about the number of Ukrainians listed as righteous
among the nations by Yad Vashem.
Their number is greater than the number of Poles, Latvians, Dutch,
Belgians, or any other European nation.
Mimi Quoting cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>:
> Serah...I hear what you say. But..and it is a big "but". Go to Yad v'Shem
> and see how many Righteous Among the Nations are Ukrainian.And we all know
> that there were and are Ukrainian anti-Semites...yet I suggest going into
> Google and looking at "Dnepropetrovsk Jewish Centre",the world's largest
> Jewish Community Centre opened October last year. I live in London...and
> one of the current local scandals is a Liberal-Democrat MP who made
> statements equating the Jews to the Nazis...maybe he should join Svoboda??
> Yet neither in the UK nor in the Ukraine can you condemn a whole
> nation,particularly not for atrocities committed in the past. In Czernowitz
> I have been invited to several Jewish events,and the locals whom I met were
> of the opinion that the community is growing,so your deathbed prediction
> seems to me not valid. I agree,a huge number of Soviet Jews left...but the
> vast majority of those were not from the Ukraine,so I do not see the point.
> Cornel
>
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