(JTA) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko praised the actions of a priest who saved Jews during the Holocaust, but who has not been recognized for it in Israel for his apparent sympathy for Nazi Germany.
Poroshenko spoke in favor of Andrey Sheptytsky at the unveiling on Wednesday of a monument in the priest’s honor in Lviv, the news website ipress.ua reported.
Poroshenko said that even though Ukraine was not an independent nation during World War II, Sheptytsky’s deeds showed that “de facto, Ukraine had a government” in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Some 10,000 people attended the event, held on the priest’s …read more
Source: JTA
