Eastern Europeans United Against Removal of Artwork

From: Forward | Date: July 13, 2001| Author: Greene, S.A. | Copyright information


Forward

07-13-2001

Eastern Europeans United Against Removal of Artwork

MOSCOW -- Politicians, journalists and even Jewish leaders in and around
Ukraine are criticizing Yad Vashem for what they call the "kidnapping" of
murals made during World War II by imprisoned writer Bruno Schulz.

"They had no right to take something so valuable from Ukraine," said
Mikhail Goldman, president of the Jewish community of Lvov, the nearest
major city to ...

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