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To: Kazan
Not this again.

Pew Research, Most Poles accept Jews as fellow citizens and neighbors, but a minority do not

Look at the map of European attitudes towards Jews as citizens, Pew found this:

Strange, how the pro-Russian faction here insists that Ukraine, one of the most welcoming countries to Jews, has rampant antisemitism.

These are the same posters who ignore Russia's antisemitism, neonazis, and racist history toward Jews.

92 posted on 12/27/2023 6:08:14 AM PST by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni! 🇺🇦 ☭ No CCCP 2.0 ☭)
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To: Widget Jr

MORE UKRAINIAN HISTORY

Ukraine rates the 4th in the number of people recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” for saving Jews during the Holocaust.

The history of the Jews in Ukraine goes back over a thousand years. Jewish communities have existed in the territory of Ukraine from the time of the Kievan Rus’ (late 9th to mid-13th century). Some of the most important Jewish religious and cultural movements, from Hasidism to Zionism, rose either fully or to an extensive degree in the territory of modern Ukraine. According to the World Jewish Congress, the Jewish community in Ukraine constitutes the third-largest in Europe and the fifth-largest in the world.

In the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917-1920), Yiddish was declared a state language, along with Ukrainian and Russian. At that time, the Jewish National Union was created and the community was granted an autonomous status.

Yiddish was used on Ukrainian currency in this same period, between 1917 and 1920. Before World War II, slightly less than 1/3 of Ukraine’s urban population consisted of Jews; they were the largest national minority in Ukraine.

More than one million Jews were shot and killed by the Einsatzgruppen [paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany] were responsible for mass-murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe.

As ordered by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, the Wehrmacht cooperated with the Einsatzgruppen, providing logistical support for their operations, and participated in the mass murders. Historian Raul Hilberg estimates that between 1941 and 1945 the Einsatzgruppen, related agencies, and foreign auxiliary personnel murdered more than two million people, including 1.3 million of the 5.5 to 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust.


96 posted on 12/27/2023 11:58:08 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion of Ukraine )
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