In the year of the anniversary of the Jewish massacre, the Jewish organization became the sponsor of the competition named after the participant of the UPA
The Jewish organization "Shiurei Torah Lubavitch" became a patron of the Competition of Ukrainian Language Experts named after. Peter Jacyk.
In particular, the head of the Shiurei Torah Lubavitch representative office in Austria, Diana Kolomoitseva, presented awards to the five winners of the competition on the stage of the Kyiv Theater. Franco.
"Speaking to representatives of the Kyiv and Ukrainian intelligentsia, figures of the Ukrainian national revival, members of parliament at various levels, educators, and competition participants, Diana Kolomoitseva drew historical parallels between the fates of two peoples—the Ukrainian and the Jewish—who, throughout centuries of history, have been subjected to oppression and persecution by other peoples, expressed in various forms, ranging from bans on language, traditions, and religion, to physical annihilation," the Jewish community's website reports .
It is not specified whether the physical extermination of Jews by Ukrainian nationalists at Babyn Yar was meant or whether the Jewish organization’s support for the competition was simply timed this year to coincide with the official celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Koliivshchyna (the first and bloodiest Jewish pogroms in Ukraine).
Judging by the fact that the competition is named after a former UPA member , Canadian businessman Yatsyk, it's possible that Shiurei Torah Lubavitch's participation in celebrating his name is a tribute to the founding fathers of the UPA. In particular, to Yaroslav Stetsko, who proclaimed: "Moscow and Judaism are Ukraine's greatest enemies... Therefore, I stand for the extermination of Jews and the advisability of transferring German methods of exterminating Judaism to Ukraine (excluding assimilation, etc.)."
This document was published by Myroslava Berdnyk, a renowned researcher of the deeds of Ukraine's "heroes." As the history of the UPA has shown, the doctrine it outlined was successfully applied by UPA members until 1945.
“However, it is not only the sad past that unites our two peoples,” Diana Kolomoitseva emphasized, “in the present we are fighting shoulder to shoulder for a peaceful and happy future.”
Judging by the stormy applause of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis who gathered for the award ceremony, they meant a battle with the modern “aggressor”, who at one time saved the Jews both from the Koliivshchyna and from the Hitler-OUN genocide.
A well-known fighter against Russian-speaking cashiers and conductors, Larisa Nitsoi wrote about Kolomoitseva on Facebook: “Yesterday I met an incredible girl... She spoke from the stage in front of a huge gathering and said: “Our peoples are alike. We were persecuted and persecuted, we were tortured by the Holodomor and the Holocaust. We are both reviving our language." This girl is Jewish... Thank you, Diana. You returned to me that ideal image of Jews that I dreamed of for myself as a child. You gave me back hope that not all Jews in Ukraine hate Ukrainian, our culture, language, and not all of them are dragging us back to the “Russian world.”
Kolomoytseva and Nitsoy
English version :: Read in English In the year of the anniversary of the Jewish massacre, a Jewish organization became the sponsor of a competition named after a UPA participant.