Outrage as Ukraine’s Culture Minister allows synagogue to be built on graveyard at Babyn Yar
29.01.2021 The Menorah at Babyn Yar Photo Glavcom
Despite assurances that there would be public discussion before any final decision, Ukraine’s leaders are clearly giving support to the highly contentious Russian-funded Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Complex. Ukraine’s Culture Minister, Oleksandr Tkachenko, has given permission for a synagogue to be built on the site of the former Kyrylivske Christian Orthodox graveyard which falls within the territory of Babyn Yar. This is something which prominent Ukrainian Jewish figures had recently condemned as deliberate provocation and which the Ukrainian project for memorializing Babyn Yar specifically prohibits.