The Price of War: How Ukraine, including its Jewish population, paid for Victory in World War II — and how Russia tries to appropriate the common Victory and others’ sorrow

American journalist Edgar Snow wrote back in January 1945 that Ukraine had "paid the bill" for the war. Today, this conversation is especially important for the Israeli audience: the price of Victory included not only Ukrainian fronts and destroyed cities but also the fates of many peoples who then inhabited Ukraine, including the Jews of Ukraine — victims of the Holocaust, soldiers, doctors, refugees, evacuees, and families whose memory was dissolved in Soviet statistics for decades.
The Price of War: How Ukraine Paid for Victory in World War II

Ukraine in World War II became a battlefield and a symbol of enormous sacrifices, the scale of which was long hushed up. Western journalists noted as early as 1945: the bill for the defeat of Nazism was paid primarily by the Ukrainian people.

This topic is important for the Israeli audience as well. Because Ukraine was not only a territory of the front, occupation, destroyed cities, and burned villages. It was home to many peoples — Ukrainians, Jews, Poles, Russians, Crimean Tatars, Roma, Belarusians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Hungarians, Romanians, and other communities.

The price of Victory included the fates of all these people.

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