Ukraine unveils large Jewish Center, Holocaust museum
A large Jewish cultural center with a Holocaust museum has opened in Ukraine's eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk, Radio Liberty reported.
The museum occupies almost 3,000 square meters in the 50,000-square-meter Menorah Center.
The complex hosts an Institute for Jewish Culture In Ukraine and a gallery that features photographs of 40 major synagogues in Dnipropetrovsk before the Nazi occupation and video footage about the Holocaust.
The complex also houses a hotel, a kosher restaurant, and supermarkets.
At least 12,000 Jews from Dnipropetrovsk were killed by the Nazis in 1941.
The opening ceremony was attended by Jewish leaders from Ukraine, Russia, and other former Soviet republics, officials from Israel, and the president of the Jewish Communities of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Levi Levayev.
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