Alexander J. Motyl: Two mass graves – Ukrainians and Jews
(FILE PHOTO) A Jewish man wipes his tears at the Babiy Yar monument in Kyiv on Sept. 30, 2012 during a ceremony marking the 71st anniversary of the beginning of the mass execution of Jews by the Nazis in September 1941.
I discovered two mass graves in the forest near my mother's home town in western Ukraine, Peremyshlyany, located 47 kilometers east-southeast of Lviv. The former Przemyślany is also a former shtetl. Its prewar population was about 5,000; its current official population is 7,000–8,000, though, given the large number of residents working abroad, it’s probably closer to the prewar level.
