When German air force pilots took aerial photographs of western Ukraine in 1941, they did it to help Nazi Germany defeat the Soviet Union in a war that saw the genocide of 6 million Jews. But in a twist of fate, the German government has recently started funding an effort that uses the photographs to identify and preserve Jewish cemeteries.
Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Sergiy Kyslytsya has accepted copies of the credentials from the newly appointed Ambassador of the State of Israel to Ukraine Joel Lion, the ministry’s press service reports.
In plea deal, Trump’s former campaign manager claims he worked with senior Israeli official in 2012 to tarnish reputation of Ukrainian opposition candidate by accusing her of anti-Semitism.
The “Sugar king” and multimillionaire philanthropist Lazar Brodsky built a beautiful synagogue in the center of Kyiv and opened it on the day of his 50th birthday—24 August 1898. After 120 years, the Jews of Kyiv joke that Brodsky even then anticipated the proclamation of Ukraine’s independence on this day.