04 May, 2006
Israel's Holocaust memorial institution Yad Vashem has launched a project to collect data on Holocaust victims in Ukraine. Ukrainians are invited to fill out a form about Shoah victims they know of and send it to Yad Vashem directly or via their local Jewish community, Boris Maftzir, head of the project, told JTA. Naomi Ben-Ami, Israel’s ambassador to Ukraine, expressed her hope that official Ukrainian sources would also help in the undertaking. “We have always cooperated with archives in Ukraine,” she said. “There should be no difficulties with obtaining new information.”