According to information received >from the newspaper National
Post (sent by Oded Feller Honorary Consul of Poland) Ukrainians
began demolishing operations of the synagogue remains Goldana
Reuza Lvov to build a hotel. Please see the link below -

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Ukraine+cleanses+history/5342964/story.html

"Remains of a synagogue that was destroyed deliberately by the
Nazis in 1941 and then looted and burned remain as evidence of the
existence of a large Jewish community in Lvov which was destroyed
systematically during the Holocaust."

Tony Hausner
Silver Spring, MD 20901
(primary email address: thausner@...)

Dear listmembers!

As a Lviv citizen and a Lviv guide I may say concerning the
"Destruction of synagogue Golden-Roiz in Lviv", that fortunately
the situation is not so tragic. The survived after WW2 remnants
of Golden Rose (the Northern wall and interior space) have
remained unchanged. Some neighbouring part of the territory
of the former medieval Jewish blocks for some period (not just
now, it started earlier) have been being used as a site for
construction of a new hotel. This process was associated with
long-term archeological investigations, which gave interesting
results, and, unfortunately, with damage to neighbouring old
building, the last fact caused protests in local mass-media.
Due to some data, the hotel owners promised to restore the
former Yeshiva building, to keep valuable archeological
findings, belonging to the religious complex. Such facts for
sure should be checked and controlled (preferably by the
objective specialists - architects and archeologists), as well as
the possible influence of the construction on the Golden Rose
remnants. At the same time, ethnic relations and general
situation in Lviv are, fortunately, very far >from the picture given
in mentioned article. Lviv still keeps the traditions of ethnic and
religious tolerance, the image of a beautiful European
multi-cultural city, friendly to its citizens and foreign visitors.

Named article has also many mistakes. Some of them:

1. There are the monuments to Holocaust victims at the territory
of former WW2 ghetto and former Janiv death camp, many
memorial plates in corresponding memorial places (in particular,
near the Golden Rose). They are visited and honored by many
people.

2. Golden Rose is one of the most valuable remnants, but,
fortunately, in Lviv there are still many other interesting objects
of Jewish heritage.

3. In the pre-WW2 period the Jews comprised approximately 30%
of Lviv population.

4. Lviv citadel was used as a concentration camp for Soviet,
French and Italian POWs, but not for the Lviv Jews (the Nazi
"prepared" for the Jews WW2 ghetto, Janiv death camp and other
forced labor camps, death camp in Belzec and so on).

Igor Holyboroda

Dear listmembers!

As a Lviv citizen and a Lviv guide I may say concerning the "Destruction of
synagogue Golden-Roiz in Lviv", that fortunately the situation is not so
tragic. The survived after WW2 remnants of Golden Rose (the Northern wall
and interior space) have remained unchanged. Some neighbouring part of the
territory of the former medieval Jewish blocks for some period (not just
now, it started earlier) have been used as a cite for construction of a new
hotel. This process was associated with long-period archeological
investigations, which gave interesting results, and, unfortunately, with
damage to neighbouring old building, the last fact caused protests in local
mass-media. Due to some data, the hotel owners promised to restore the
former Yeshiva building, to keep valuable archeological findings, belonging
to the religious complex.

Such facts for sure should be checked and controlled (preferably by the
objective specialists - architectors and archeologists), as well as the
possible influence of the construction on the Golden Rose remnants.

Euro-2012 have really caused many different, mainly temporary problems. At
the same time, ethnic relations and general situation in Lviv are,
fortunately, very far >from the picture given in the mentioned article. Lviv
still keeps the traditions of ethnic and religious tolerance, the image of a
beautiful European multi-cultural city, friendly to it's citizens and foreign
visitors.

Named article has also many other mistakes. Some of them:
1. There are the monuments to Holokost victims at the territory of former
WW2 getto and former Janiv death camp, many memorial plates in corresponding
memorial places (in particular, near the Golden Rose). They are visited and
honored by many people.
2. Golden Rose is one of the most valuable remnants, but, fortunately, in
Lviv there are still many other interesting objects of Jewish heritage.
3. In the pre-WW2 period the Jews comprised approximately 30% of Lviv
population.
4. Lviv citadel was used as a concentration camp for Soviet, French and
Italian POWs, but not for the Lviv Jews (the Nazi "prepared" for the Jews
WW2 getto, Janiv death camp and other forced labor camps, death camp in
Belzhec and so on).

Igor Holyboroda, a Lviv guide
http://people.polynet.lviv.ua/iholybor

Apparently, the Golden Roiz synagogue is not threatened with
demolition. See:

http://samgrubersjewishartmonuments.blogspot.com/2011/09/ukraine-golden-ros
e-synagogue-ruins-not.html

Bruce Reisch

Geneva, New York

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