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Symon Petliura
Foremr Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the signing of a free trade agreement in the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, January 21, 2019. (Jim Hollander/Pool via AP)
January 24, 2019, 4:06 pm
Top Nazi hunter blasts visiting Ukraine leader for ignoring Holocaust complicity
Efraim Zuroff decries Poroshenko’s ‘chutzpah’ for equating Shoah with Soviet man-made famine in 1930s, says Kiev is perhaps worst offender on distortion of Jewish genocide
By Raphael Ahren
Pinchas Goldschmidt. (Flash90)
June 2, 2016, 6:13 pm
Rabbi slams Ukraine for honoring anti-Semites
Minute of silence for ‘mass murderer’ of Jews and naming of streets after nationalists sparks Jewish concerns
By JTA
Symon Petliura, a 1920s Ukrainian statesman blamed for the murder of 50,000 Jewish compatriots (YouTube screenshot)
May 31, 2016, 8:42 pm
Ukraine honors nationalist whose troops killed 50,000 Jews
Country for the first time observes a minute of silence in memory of Symon Petliura, a 1920s statesman killed by a Russia-born Jew
By JTA
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