The Jewish Confederation of Ukraine (JCU), the umbrella association of Ukraine’s independent social, charitable and religious Jewish organisations and the country’s EJC affiliate, launched its inaugural Kyiv Jewish Forum.
U.S. Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr during his stay in Kyiv will address the Kyiv Jewish Forum and meet with representatives of the Ukrainian government and Jewish community.
This was discussed during the regular round of the Ukrainian-Israeli expanded political consultations at the Israeli Foreign Ministry on April 29, 2019, the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reported.
In the three months has yielded the bones of 1,214 people. Most are believed to be the remains of Jews slaughtered by the Nazis after Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941.