Synagogue shot at and Holocaust mass grave raided in Ukraine

In Ukraine, a synagogue has been found with bullet holes and a mass grave for Holocaust victims has been robbed and desecrated in two separate incidents.

The synagogue in Kremenchuk was reportedly shot at last month, but was only reported on 30th May in order to avoid panic amongst the Jewish community.

Eduard Dolinsky, the Director of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, uploaded photographs, where a window can be seen with a bullet hole, to Facebook.

There were no injuries in the incident.

Mr Dolinsky also uploaded photographs of the desecrated grave in the village of Pikov, where Bones can be seen protruding from the earth.

He wrote: “Nazis and local collaborators shot more than a thousand Jews, including women and children in May 1942 there. Now some people who have lost their humanity are looking for gold in their grave.”

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