UKRLAA

UKRAINIAN LEAGUE AGAINST ANTI-SEMITISM (UKRLAA)
OPEN LETTER TO JEWISH FEDERATIONS AND ORGANISATIONS

I ask you to raise some very important and painful questions regarding the rehabilitation of Anti-Semitism in Ukraine and regarding the fact that several people historically implied in the killing of Jews are now been considered as heroes . .
This is an extremely actual topic for Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldavia, Romania and considering the development of the five years it is an extremely hot subject in Ukraine. Indeed, from 2005 to 2009 Ukraine was governed by the Yushenko-Timoschenko coalition regime that was completely anti-Semitic. It has to be mentioned that the whole word has been tricked by this regime who managed to get support from the European Union and The USA (Regrettably, some Jews also were duped by this regime). .

During these five years , there number of anti-Semitic incidents, were multiple pogroms and vandalization targeting Jewish cemeteries, sites of Holocaust mass murders, Jewish schools, Jewish Institutes, Jewish synagogues (criminal fires, swastikas painted up, violent physical aggressions against rabbis, etc...), attacks on Jewish public figures in the local mass media, and neo-Nazi marches. .

Thanks to GOD, due to sincere attempts to bring the truth and to bring real information about this regime, we succeed in breaking it and Viktor Yanukovych became the new president.

Now, we need to address the U.S President, the U.S senators, the members of the U.S Congress, The president of France, the Prime minister of Great-Britain in order to support the new president of Ukraine – Viktor Yanukovitch.

Recent events in four different Eastern European countries have once again highlighted the ongoing assault on the accepted Holocaust narrative in the post-communist world. Three attached considerable attention, while the fourth, which perhaps affords us the best insight into the phenomenon of Eastern European attempts to rewrite World War II history, was virtually ignored, until it aroused a solitary Jewish protest.

As an immediate result we should call for the restitution, in the whole Ukraine, of the Jewish temples in the same way that Christian temples have been given back after 1990 to the Christians. In the building of the past built synogogue (Templ) where have been sang the biggest kanthor Yosef Shmidt - in his movietheater where has been showed the hollywoodic movies. This synagogue whose the Nazis german wanted to destroy at the beginning and after then the Soviet army (the "Red army"). In other synagogue there is a sportcomplex(!!!) and there is one synagogue where is a holly fabriane where is maken a windows and doors. In one big building of a synagogue there has been selledto the athventistim. In town Vyzhnitsa, in Chernivtsi region, was synagogue of hasidies is cituated now a Building of Culture.

May I inform you that in the Western Ukraine and Kiev, some streets and monuments are been renamed from the name of historical criminals implied in the mass-murdering of Jews: Petlyura , Bandera , Shukhevitch and others . Regional center, name of region, names of streets , towns in Ukraine, square in center of Kiev, monument in this square - cossack getman Bogdan Khmelnitsky : can we imagine that one street in Germany could be named after Adolf Hitler ?

May I recall you that Uman was the place in 1768 of a massacre of more than 30,000 Jewish (and polish) people ordered by the cossack getman Bogdan Khmelnitsky and the place of several other massacres of Jews.

Another example: every year tens of thousand of Jews from the world come to Uman to attend the tomb of Rabi Nahman to celebrate Rosh-ha-shana. And every year there are multiple problems:

· A huge hotel belonging to the Jews (Hasidim Hotel) has been illegally taken by member of the parliament deputy Petr Kuzmenko.

· In some other places of the city, new houses for rich people are being built on Jewish cemeteries: on the bone of Jews!

· Pilgrims are welcomed by police forces with dogs!

· The Ultra-nationalist Party «Svoboda» is making anti-Semitic demonstration before the event of Rosh-ha-shana.

· On 27/09/10, 30,000 Jewish people from the whole world attended for Jewish holydays Rosh ha-shana near the tomb of Rabi Nahman from Bratslov. One 21-year old Jewish, Shmuel Tubul was murdered by Ukrainians anti-Semitic criminals. He was to get married in 2 months in Israel.

In the city of Lviv , after the local elections, the ultra-nationalistic party "Svoboda" won the Governmental position in Galicia (Western Ukraine - former territory of Poland) and its Anti-Semitic leader, Oleg Tyagnibok is now ruling the area.

UEFA must remove the city of LVIV from the city organising soccer matches during EURO 2012 even.

As a result it is now necessary to call all the global Jewish community to press UEFA to cacel the of Lvov as the place for holding the UEFA championship EURO 2012 (Boycott).
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The event of the congress of UEFA in Venice ( 8-9 / 12 /2011 ) should be also the occasion to officially protest against the antisemitism in Lviv .We call young Jewish people to rally Venice at this date and to protest.

May I also recall that in the regions of Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk (Stanislaw), more than 200,000 Jews have been killed in each region by the Ukrainian fascists in 1941 during the Second World War. And now in western Ukraine they are proclaiming heroes out of Jews-killers!

When Viktor Yanoukovitch became the new president of Ukraine the amount of antisemititic acts decreased. The proclamation by Viktor Yuschenko that Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian Hero have been definitively invalidated by the Donetsk Appeal Court . The same fate occured for all the other Ukrainians 'Nazi Hero' such as Roman Shukhevitch and all the leaders of the criminals organisations ( OUN,UPA, SS Galicia) that murdered Ukrainian Jews during second world war .

In 2011 , in Uman , during Rosh-Ah-Shana , the Ukrainian police arrested and expelled 6 Jews. The locals are doing many provocations in order to conflict with the Jewish people. In 2011 the Fascist party 'Svoboda' organized a huge provocation by calling its troop to stand in Uman for the event 'Uman without the Hassidims' ( sic) . On this occasion , many youg Ukrainians went to Uman , answering to the call of 'Svoboda' , in order to fight with the Jewish pilgrims. These youg men were arrested and detained by the Ukrainian police who seized many knifes , anti-riot gas , light grenades from this people. one year ago , a Jewish pilgrim , Shmuel Tubul was murdered by Ukrainian criminals . 10 days ago , a meeting had been oganised by Svoboda and the goal was to 'expell' the Jews from the Ukrainian ground...Svoboda wrote on tracts that Jews were bringing diseases to Ukraine like the rats or the dogs ...

The previous regime , leaders of the Orange revolution lead by Timochenko and Yushenko have duped the whole world by pretending they were bringing democracy to Ukraine . The USA and Europe should stop to support these 'Orange' leaders and should stop to fund them .These leaders are now pretending to fight againt Viktor Yanukovitch , described as a 'facist' while in reality , they are the facists ! Voice of America TV and Radio Freedom should also stop to broadcast interviews of these leaders who have heavily supported 'Svoboda' in the past .

Giving money to the 'Orange revolution' Leaders results in funding Oleg Tyanibok , the facist party 'Svoboda' who have named streets after war criminals such as Roman Shukevitch or Stefan Bandera. The USAID and other fondations must stop funding 'orange' NGO non-profit antisemitic organisations.

14 october 2011, In Kiev , an estimated amount of 30,000 supporters of 'Svoboda' did rally the city to show their support to the criminal organizations of OUN and UPA and to their Hero , Stefan Bandera. They beared many panels with the picture or War Nazi Criminals .

On August 2011 , in Lviv , the old synaguogue 'Golden Rose' had been half-destroyed by Lviv authorities who wanted to build an hotel for the Euro 2012 .After an international reaction from many Jews , the struction had ben stopped . Destroying the synagogue was totally illegal since it is a part of the UNESCO international patrimony . In Kiev , the officials wanted to build an hotel on the very important place of memory of 'Babi-Yar' ( an estimated amount of 33000 jews were murdered there during the second world war ) . The Timochenko-Yuschenko regime also refused all the time to authorize the building of a memorial at the 'Babi-Yar' place . On the opposite , Viktor Yanukovitch authorized the building of this memorial , 70 years after the massacre of 'Babi-Yar'.

There are many places like Babi-Yar' in the whole of Ukraine . We should build a big memorial for remembering the Holocaust dedicated to all the places in Ukraine where Jews were murdered , not only for 'Babi-Yar', like the big memorial in Paris and Washington for the Holocaust.

1,5 millions of Ukrainians jews have been murdered by the Nazis and the collaborationaists. During the regime of Timochenko and Yuschenko , no officials have even been seen attending the commerations of 'Babi-Yar'.

The municipality of Lvov want to name the new stadium of Lvov , build for the Euro 2012 soccer cup , the 'Stepan Bandera' Stadium.

The antisemitic novel from the writer Vassili Chklyar , 'The Black Crow' has won the Chevchenko State price. The former president Yuschenko wants to raise money from Ukrainian people to produce the film in Hollywood.

The leaders of the 'Orange revolution' want revenge , they have fool Ukraine , Europe and the whole world. They are now proclaiming that Viktor Yanukovych is a dictator and is doing political repression. It's entirely false.What they want , in reality, is Ukraine to restart its antisemitic politics.

In the City of Chernovtsy (Cernovitz) , the municipality service destroyed, from 2009 to 2010 a number of Jewish tombs while they were cutting and burning old trees and they did not pay attention to the damages. .
There was, of course, a ban to cutting trees in the Jewish cemetery because this place is considered as a culture -historical sanctuary and must be therefore protected .but the municipality did not care about this ban.

A Jewish man in critical condition after he was reportedly assaulted by neo-Nazi gang in the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Aharon Alexander Gorshonov, a 25-year old yeshiva student, at a hospital in Kiev. He was last seen leaving the synagogue with a white Kippa on his head on the second night of Seder near Kiev’s central synagogue Brodsky’s. When we found him at the hospital, his face was bloodied and his skull was shattered. Gorshonov went missing in the same area Kiev where skinheads (Ukrainian neo-Nazi) brutally attacked another member of the local Jewish community (yeshiva student) seven years ago – after long times in hospital. Complained that he had regularly been subjected to anti-Semitic taunts and abuse since he moved to Ukraine over a decade ago.

In march 2012 a Holocaust memorial was vandalized in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv (Lvov). According to Jewish leaders, Oleksandr Nazar, of the city’s Sholem Aleichem Jewish Culture Center, said Friday that activists had cleaned off most of the paint used to deface the memorial.

Ukraine attack victim being treated in Israel.

The victim of an alleged anti-Semitic attack that took place in Ukraine was flown to Israel to receive treatment for his wounds.

All of above cases can best be described as “Holocaust distortion” (as opposed to denial), which seeks to promote the canard of historical equivalency between Nazi and communist crimes, thereby denying the Holocaust its rightful place as a unique case of genocide. Such distortion also minimizes the highly significant role of Hitler’s Eastern European collaborators in Holocaust crimes and paves the way for the rehabilitation of those who fought against the Soviets, regardless of any crimes they may have committed against Jews. It is this ideological foundation that spawned all four described above.

This approach was originally formulated in the Prague Declaration of June 3, 2008, which can properly be categorized as the official “manifesto of Holocaust distortion”. The declaration’s original signatories – 27 leading Eastern European political leaders and intellectuals – openly warn that Europe will never be united until it “recognize(s) communism and Nazism as a common legacy,” and makes practical demands that if accepted would lead to a revolutionary reevaluation of World War II history, and turn the Holocaust into just another of many similar tragedies. Unfortunately, resolutions supporting these principles have already passed by a wide margin in the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

It is time for the Israeli government and Jewish defense organizations to begin actively combating these dangerous phenomena, lest the successes achieved during recent decades in Holocaust commemoration and education worldwide be erased by those trying to conceal the crimes of their countrymen.

As a conclusion, we should empower and enforce the existing TAGLIT and MASA programs and we should increase the number of Jewish trips for young people to the place of murdering of Jews in Ukraine (and other places of Jewish Holocaust).

We need to call out for creating economical and financial sanctions, the EBRD, World Bank, USAID must stop funding-support the regions of Western Ukraine who are rehabilitating and making heroes with Jews killers.

Sincerely yours,

The President of the Ukrainian League against Anti-Semitism,
Baruch Fichman

Email: baruch2000@gmail.com
website: http://uklaa.blogspot.com

UA-58000 Chernivtsi, UKRAINE

2010 -2012

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Rabbi Nahman 's Tomb in Uman

Meeting of the Neo-Nazi Party "SVOBODA" and its leader Oleg Tyagnibok in front of the statue of Stephan Bandera , a nazi collaborationist and war criminal implied in salughtering of jews during World War Two

Neo-Nazi manifestation in Lvov in SS uniforms ( Western Ukraine ) where 200,000 Jewish people
were murdered during World War Two !

Stephan Bandera with SS officers during the second world war

Portrait of Stephan Bandera , considered as a messianic leader in modern Western Ukraine in the current process of "heroization" of WWII war criminals

Роман Шухевич ( Roman Choukhevitch ) , the Ukrainian war
criminal , in its Wafen SS commander uniform , many streets in Ukraine ( including in Chernivtsi ) bear his name currently after the actions of the former prime minister Timochenko and the regime Ioushenko-Timoschenko !