Project commemorating the killing of Jews reveals tensions between Soviet and modern Ukrainian historical narrativeOne day during the Nazi occupation of western Ukraine in the second world war, a young Jewish woman slipped out of the ghetto in the town of Rava Ruska to buy some butter in the market. On her way, she was spotted by a German officer, who ordered her stripped naked, made the seller smear her body in butter, and then had her beaten to death with sticks. Related: Frontline Ukraine: ‘How Europe failed to slay the demons of war’ Of course it was a …read more
Source: The Guardian
