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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

Ukrainian nationalists

Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 1, 2022, 10:34 pm
Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists march in honor of Nazi collaborator
Stepan Bandera led Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought alongside Nazi Germany during WWII, killing thousands of Jews and Poles
By Agencies
Illustrative: Former Ukrainian president Victor Yushchenko speaks during official meeting marking the 130th anniversary of Symon Petlyura's birth, Kiev, Wednesday, May 27, 2009, with Petlyura's, left, and members of his army photos in the background. In 1921 after Ukraine finally fell under Soviet authority Petlyura moved to Paris, where in 1926 he was fatally shot in revenge for the deaths of Jews during pogroms staged by members of his army. (AP Photo/Presidential Press Service, Mykola Lazarenko, Pool)
December 8, 2020, 4:20 pm
Ukraine Jewish prof. claims he was fired for protesting controversial statue
Zoriy Fine says he was dismissed after 2 weeks at Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University after contesting a memorial to a military leader whose troops massacred 35,000-50,000 Jews
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Heinrich Himmler, center, reviews troops of the Galician SS-Volunteer Infantry Division, June 3, 1944. (AP/US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of Atlantic Foto Verlag Berlin)
July 19, 2020, 10:10 am
Vandalism of Ontario memorial to Nazi soldiers investigated as hate crime
Activist ‘dumbfounded’ at idea that graffiti on cenotaph for Ukrainians in Waffen-SS unit accused of killing Jews, Poles, could be anything other than mere property destruction
By ToI Staff
In this May 2014 file photo, Michael Karkoc works in his yard in Minneapolis. Karkoc, a retired Minnesota carpenter whom The Associated Press exposed as a former commander of a Nazi-led unit accused of war atrocities, died December 14, 2019, according to cemetery and public records. (Richard Sennott/Star Tribune via AP)
January 22, 2020, 12:10 am
Minnesota man exposed as commander of Nazi-led unit dies
Michael Karkoc commanded a company in the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion that murdered dozens of Polish women and children in 1944, then lied to US authorities about it
By Amy Forliti, Steve Karnowski and Randy Herschaft
Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. The rally was organized to mark the birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, founder of a rebel army that fought against the Soviet regime and who was assassinated in Germany in 1959. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 1, 2020, 11:22 pm
Torchlit march in Kyiv honors Nazi-linked nationalist
1,000 far-right activists commemorate 111th birthday of Stepan Bandera, whose followers have been linked to the mass murders of Jews
By AP and ToI Staff
Vlodymyr Zelensky, the Jewish president of Ukraine, meets with rabbis in Kiev. (Courtesy of the Jewish Community of Dnepro)
November 12, 2019, 4:10 am
For Ukrainian Jews, having a Jewish president is a source of pride — and fear
Zelensky has a 70% approval rating and his May election was breakthrough in race relations, but his coreligionists fear other shoe dropping. Then there’s the US impeachment scandal
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Ukrainian Neo-Nazi band Sokraya Peruna in concert in 2018. (sokrayaperuna.com)
October 27, 2019, 9:33 am
Ukrainian PM, minister attended neo-Nazi concert in Kyiv
Oleksiy Honcharuk stood on stage at a veterans benefit event organized by figures connected to violent C14 movement and headlined by anti-Semitic metal band Sokyra Peruna
By Sam Sokol
Architectural rendering of a proposed memorial/research institute at the Babi Yar massacre site in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. (Courtesy BYHMC)
September 11, 2019, 12:09 pm
Austrian firm chosen to design Babi Yar Holocaust memorial
Ukrainian nationalists oppose plans to build a monument at the site where more than 30,000 Jews were murdered
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative; Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kiev, Ukraine, January 1, 2018, behind a banner showing Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
July 22, 2019, 6:54 pm
Head of Ukrainian group glorifying Nazi collaborators set to enter parliament
President reportedly planning on bringing in new head of state-funded Institute of National Memory, which had engaged in rehabilitating anti-Communists who helped Nazis
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative: Ukrainian Jewish immigrants arrive at the Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, December 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
July 6, 2019, 12:03 pm
When Russia invaded Ukraine, the countries’ rabbis also went to war
How the 2014 conflict pitted Jewish communities against each other
By Sam Sokol
Ukrainians hold burning torches as they gather in Kiev, Ukraine, March 5, 2010, to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of Roman Shukhevych, a Ukrainian politician, military leader and Nazi collaborator. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)
June 15, 2019, 5:24 am
Ukraine historian honors Nazi collaborator, calls criticism ‘Russian propaganda’
State historian blames Moscow for protests by Israel and Poland against Ukrainian glorification of WWII militia leader
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Ukrainian nationalists march in Lviv to honor Roman Shukhevych in March 2017. (YouTube screenshot)
June 6, 2019, 8:15 pm
Israel, Poland join in protest against Ukraine monument to Nazi collaborator
Israeli and Polish ambassadors sign joint letter to Ivano-Frankisvsk mayor; in Kharkiv, nationalists set off smoke bombs outside Jewish community building
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A statue of Stepan Bandera in Lviv, Ukraine, September 2014. (Courtesy Andrey Syasko/via JTA)
December 27, 2018, 4:40 pm
Ukraine celebrates Nazi collaborator, bans book critical of pogroms leader
State agencies have declared January 1 a commemoration day for WWII nationalist Stepan Bandera
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Kalush Gymnasim teacher Natalia Zubrytska, who ran to paint over a swastika, front center with paintbrush. (Kalush Gymnasium)
November 23, 2018, 2:58 pm
Ukrainian youth and townsfolk band together to restore neglected Jewish cemetery
Residents of Kalush, one-third of whose population were Jews prior to WWII, take off work and school to give a piece of their shared history a much-needed facelift
By Bernard Dichek
Members of nationalist movements attend a rally marking Defender of Ukraine Day, in Kiev, Ukraine, October 14, 2018. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
October 15, 2018, 8:04 am
Ukrainian nationalists honor WWII-era paramilitary group
Ukraine’s Insurgent Army fought against the Soviets, sometimes in collaboration with the Nazi Germany; scuffles break out with police as demonstrators try to destroy monument
By AP
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