Thank you Christian for the encouraging information. I am glad that
the cabinet of ministers in Kyiv
decided to have a commemoration site on the grounds of the former
Golden Rose Synagogue.
Those who do not know history are destined to repeat it.
Mimi
On Aug 18, 2014, at 1:56 AM, Christian Herrmann wrote:
> Dear Hardy, dear Mimi, dear all,
>
> Hardy perfectly hit the point. Many people in Ukraine grow up in a
> space without history. The holocaust did not exist in Soviet school
> books. Remember the mass grave next to river Prut in Czernowitz.
> There are two monuments. One from the Soviet periode - saying that
> Soviet citizens were murdered there - the second errected after the
> independence of Ukraine - saying that Jews were murdered there.
> When I ask the Ukrainian volunteers what they learned in school
> about the Holocaust, the answer is always the same, barely nothing.
> Ukraine still struggels with the Soviet past and not every change
> is welcomed by nationalists. Therefore initiatives like the one of
> the Jewish museum in Czernowitz are extremely important. The museum
> offers education for teachers and educational materials for school
> lessons. A similar project is run by the Institute of Urban Studies
> in Lviv. In this projects in particular local events are teached
> and not events that took place somewhere on the moon.
>
> In a space without history a "theme restaurant" like the one next
> to the Golden Rose looks exotic to most of the visitors but would
> not be identified as anti-Semitic. And Hardy is right, those who
> know, eat eslwhere. Anyway the place is far to expensive for most
> of the locals.
>
> Nevertheless there are signs of hope. A few days ago the cabinet of
> ministers in Kyiv decided to have a commemoration site on the
> ground of the Golden Rose - ending a long struggle in the city
> administration and following the wishes of the local Jewish community.
>
> Best wishes,
> Christian
>
>
>
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