US Holocaust Memorial Museum Expresses Deep Concern About Anti-Romani Violence and Antisemitism in Ukraine
May 14, 2018
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM EXPRESSES DEEP CONCERN ABOUT ANTI-ROMANI VIOLENCE AND ANTISEMITISM IN UKRAINE
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum expresses deep concern regarding recent manifestations of intolerance and antisemitism in Ukraine including violence directed against the Romani communities in Kyiv and L’viv. On April 21 members of the neo-Nazi Ukrainian organization C14 in the Holosiyiv District of Kyiv forced 15 families to flee the area and burned down their dwellings. On May 9, approximately 30 masked men burned down the Rudne settlement in the L’viv district. The Roma were targeted by the Nazis during World War II and at least 200,000 were killed by the Germans and their collaborators. There has also been an alarming rise in antisemitic activity including the desecration of Jewish memorial sites, torchlight marches and antisemitic speeches organized by neo-Nazi groups in L’viv and Odessa glorifying Nazi collaborators who participated in the mass murder of Ukrainian Jews.
While acknowledging the hate crime investigation of the April 21 attack on the Romani community that has been opened by the Kyiv municipal police and the recent statement by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko strongly condemning “any manifestations of intolerance and antisemitism†and promising immediate reaction by Ukrainian law enforcement agencies, it is clear that more needs to be done to combat antisemitic and anti-Roma prejudice and to stop the various efforts to distort the nation’s Holocaust history by glorifying Nazi collaborators and white-washing historical truth.
Read more at: https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases/museum-expresses-deep-concern-about-anti-romani-violence-and-antisemitism-in-ukraine
Statement of the US Holocaust Museum. Looks like they issue statements on situations in the world fairly frequently.
https://www.ushmm.org/information/press/press-releases
