Ukrainian region honors Jewish victims 

An autonomous region within Ukraine has honored Jews who died during the Holocaust. On Saturday, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea marked the day of remembrance of the Krymchak and Jewish victims of Nazism. The Krymchak, a sub-ethnic group of Turkic-speaking Crimean Jews who numbered about 10,000 before World War II, were almost entirely killed during the Shoah, along with thousands of Crimea’s prewar Ashkenazi Jews. During the remembrance day, which was organized by local Jewish groups, flags flew at half-mast across the Black Sea peninsula.