Scholars depart for Ukraine on mission to preserve area's rich history... [...];
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Wednesday,July 21, 2010

The Crimean city of Sevastopol on Sunday commemorated those 4,200 Crimean Jews and an residents of the Crimean Peninsula slaughtered by the Nazi German in 1942, Ukraine's Unian news agency said... [...];
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Monday,July 12, 2010

Israelis searching for grandfather's grave in Ukraine shocked to discover that stones at entrance to Bogoslav's municipality building are actually ancient tombstones taken from Jewish cemetery... [...];
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Friday,July 2, 2010

Civic action group encourages locals to be involved in cemetery conservation to preserve the past, strengthen ties between Poles and Jews for the future... [...];
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Tuesday,May 11, 2010

A Chabad student was murdered two weeks ago in the Ukraine and his body was cut up into ten pieces, according to reports released to the media on Saturday night. Police were reportedly investigating whether the murder was an act of anti-Semitism... [...];
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Tuesday,May 11, 2010

Yael Blau, the granddaughter of the Nobel Laureate for literature, Shai Agnon, on Monday laid a wreath in honor of her grandfather at the memorial plaque in the bleak, snow-covered small town of Buczacz, in Western Ukraine... [...];
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Thursday,March 25, 2010

Twenty Knesset members addressed Ukrainian leaders in a harshly worded letter on Wednesday, condemning the country's decision to let a politician accused of being a rabid anti-Semite run for president... [...];
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Thursday,November 19, 2009

The mayor of Ukraine's capital Kiev has blocked a plan that could have seen a hotel built at the site of the memorial to the largest Nazi massacre of Jews in the Soviet Union, reports said on Saturday... [...];
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Tuesday,September 29, 2009

The opening line from Yevgeny Yevtushenko's most famous poem, "Babi Yar" - "No monument stands over Babi Yar" - may once again be an accurate reflection of reality if Kiev's municipality carries out its plan to build a hotel on the memorial site of one of the most notorious massacres of Jews during the Holocaust... [...];
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Thursday,September 24, 2009

Yair Ben-Walid managed to keep up his good spirits, considering the situation ahead of him. It was 4:30 in the afternoon and the schedule board in the departure hall left no room for doubt - the flight that was due to take him, his small son and his friend to Uman in the Ukraine would leave on time, in an hour... [...];
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Thursday,September 17, 2009