Halya Coynash: The world must not ignore the suffering of the Crimean Tatars the way it once ignored ours – Chief Rabbi of Ukraine
People light up candles to commemorate 72 years since Crimean Tatar deportation on Maidan Nezalezhnosti on May 18.
Our cry must be heard, so that the horror of the past is not repeated here and now. Our words must ring out because the world is now silent about the fate of the Crimean Tatars. This was the message on May 18 from Yaakov Dov Bleich, Chief Rabbi of Ukraine speaking at the remembrance gathering in Kyiv for the Victims of the Deportation of the Crimean Tatar people. The words were to a world which once again is bitterly failing to react when an entire people is in danger.
