Lviv Jews appealed to the leadership of the region and the city: the wave of anti-Semitism is growing, there is no reaction from the authorities
The Jewish community in Lvov is concerned about the growing trend of anti-Semitic manifestations in the city and notes that there is a possibility of further escalation.
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This is stated in the appeal of the city’s Jewish community to Mayor Andrei Sadovoy, Governor Oleg Sinyutka, head of the national police Valery Sereda and head of the SBU in the Lviv region Alexander Tkachuk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Among the latest anti-Semitic manifestations in Lviv are hooligan acts near the house of the Society of Jewish Culture, when all information tables were torn down, anti-Semitic inscriptions with threats on the territory of the memorial complex “Space of Synagogues” and on Sholom Aleichem Street, an attempt to arson an existing synagogue on Brothers Mikhnovsky Street.
The Jewish public is surprised by the insufficient official response of the city and regional councils to the growing wave of anti-Semitic attacks, as well as the position regarding the tragic events that occurred in Lvov on June 30 - July 2, 1941.
“We are convinced that such a reaction from the authorities and human rights organizations to all of the above only strengthens the feeling of impunity and permissiveness among those forces whose goal, in our opinion, is to further aggravate interethnic relations and destabilize the situation in the city using the “Jewish card.” We protest against such actions. We hope that the relevant authorities will take measures to curb this growing wave of xenophobia in order to return Lviv to the image of a tolerant city,” the appeal says.
Earlier, the head of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, Eduard Dolinsky, reported that as part of the celebration of the birthday of Roman Shukhevych “ShukhevychFest” in Lviv, they threw a Molotov cocktail into the synagogue and wrote “You remember July 1” (July 1, 1941 - the date of the Lviv pogrom of 1941 ). The Lviv mayor's office condemned the incident and called it an act of vandalism, without mentioning the word anti-Semitism. The festival in memory of Hauptmann Shukhevych was held on June 30 - July 2, the days when in 1941, a Jewish pogrom took place in Lviv, in which thousands of people were brutally killed.
The World Jewish Congress and the National Conference in Support of Eurasian Jews expressed outrage and demanded that the Lvov authorities cancel the festival in honor of the Nazi collaborator.
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