During the 4th session of the European Commission's Working Group on implementing the EU strategy on Combating Anti-Semitism and Fostering Jewish life, which took place in Bucharest from May 2 to 4, the President of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine Boris Lozhkin met with the Prime Minister of Romania Nicolae Ionel Ciucă and thanked him for the provided financial, humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine. The president of the JCU wrote about it on Facebook.
"The prime minister assured me that Romania will continue to help Ukraine until we win," Lozhkin noted.
According to Lozhkin, he spoke at the meeting of the European Commission in the section "EU Neighbors: A Threat to the Memory of the Holocaust" about the current situation in the Jewish community in Ukraine.
"The main problem of Ukrainian Jews today is not anti-Semitism and not the preservation of the memory of the Holocaust, but the war of russia against Ukraine," emphasized the JCU President and thanked the European Commission Coordinator on Combating Anti-Semitism Katharina von Schnurbein for the invitation and the opportunity to deliver this message to the participants of the meeting.
“Current independent Ukraine is a country with one of the lowest levels of anti-Semitism in Europe, and if there is a threat to the memory of the Holocaust nowadays, this threat is coming entirely from russia. The shellings of Babyn Yar and Drobytsky Yar are the proof of this," Lozhkin noted.
According to him, by murdering Holocaust victims, destroying synagogues and ancient Jewish cemeteries, russia itself destroys its own myth of the "denazification" of Ukraine.
“The genocide of the Ukrainian political nation carried out by russia is directed against the Jews as well. The victory of Ukraine, with the support of our allies, will make it possible to restore the life of the Ukrainian Jewish community,” emphasized the JCU President.