Jerusalem Post edition story about the ceremony in memory of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the murder of Jews at Babyn Yar in Kyiv, placed its emphasis, emphasizing the role of Ukrainian nationalists in this crime. “President Reuven Rivlin gave a speech in parliament on Tuesday. In this speech, he told Ukrainian legislators that many of the crimes committed against Jews were committed by members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists."
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The CEO and executive vice president of the ceremony's co-organizer, the World Jewish Congress, Robert Singer called the massacre an event that remains incomprehensible. “The Holocaust was not perpetrated by the Third Reich alone. Almost every country in Europe helped the Germans exterminate their Jews, and the Ukrainians were no exception. Too many of those who did not openly help the Nazis simply looked away. Too many ordinary people watched their Jewish neighbors being taken away and pretended they didn’t see.”
“Singer also paid tribute to those Ukrainians who joined the Red Army in the fight against the Nazis, and to those who saved their Jewish neighbors from certain death,” the publication notes.
“Petro Poroshenko in his speech drew attention to the fact that Nazism has no nationality, and to the fact that among the executioners there were those who were actually ashamed. And the Ukrainian people, in their collective memory, must remember both these executioners and their victims,” the publication concluded.