Last year, Volodymyr Groysman became the first openly Jewish prime minister of Ukraine. Born in 1978, he grew up after the worst strictures of official Soviet anti-Jewish policies, and rose to be mayor of the city of Vinnytsia.
The Jerusalem Post: Groysman says he never hid his ethnic origins
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman (L), and his wife Olena, look at pictures of Jewish Holocaust victims on May 15 at the Hall of Names during his visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II.
