Israel Matzav: Holocaust denial alive and well in Ukraine

Israel Matzav: Holocaust denial alive and well in Ukraine
Excerpt:
Tom Gross reports on the destruction of the ancient synagogue of Lemberg, Austria (later Lvov, Poland) to make way for a hotel in Lviv, Ukraine (yes, they're all the same place).

The synagogue was part of a UNESCO heritage site where thousands of Jews were murdered between 1941-44, but no one cares. Last week I watched as bulldozers began to demolish the adjacent remnants of what was once one of Europe's most beautiful synagogue complexes, the 16th-century Golden Rose in Lviv. Most of the rest of the synagogue was burned down, with Jews inside, by the Nazis in 1941.

During the war, 42 other synagogues were destroyed in Lviv, which from the middle ages to the 20th century was known by its Austrian (and Yiddish) name, Lemberg, and then called Lvov after the Soviets annexed it in 1945. The remnants of the Golden Rose are one of the few remaining vestiges of Jewish existence in Lviv, the majority of whose residents, in 1940, were Jewish.

It is not only morally wrong for bulldozers to drill through the last traces of this vibrant past without first giving the handful of remaining Jews here a chance to restore this site, or turn it into a place of memorial. It is legally wrong, too. Ukraine's own laws are designed to preserve such historic sites...

[As I have posted before, the Holocaust still remains an unprecedented evil, a cloud of shame that the society of mankind still refuses to deal with. Its effects are on-going. Those who deny it are liars and belong to the father of lies. God is love. God is truth. God loves life.]