They survived the Nazis and the Soviet regime. Now they’re grappling with a new force of terror.
Then came the rule of Joseph Stalin, and in Soviet-controlled Ukraine, atheism was the designated religion, and practicing Judaism was forbidden. What resulted from the oppression was a lack of understanding of Jewish culture, and after the Iron Curtain fell, many lost all ties to the religion.
Mariya Maksymovych, Emilia Kovalchyk and Olga Lozynska prepare Shabbat service dinner and the second meal for the Synagogue’s soup kitchen. The majority of refugees the kitchen serves are homeless and coming from the east.Women in the kitchen of the Synagogue run around in a hurry, checking to make sure the borscht is just right and that the bread has been made, and laughing with one another while they work.
Anatoliy Melamed worries about what the depleting size of his community means for the future of Jews in Lviv.Echoes of a Ukraine with a depleting Jewish population are felt throughout the country. Alla Zaitseva was three-years-old when World War II began. Her family was Jewish and lived in Sevastopol, Crimea. Zaitseva's father worked in Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, and her mother was an accountant.
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