aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Remembrance ceremony held in Crimea

[Natalia Pylypiuk <natalia.pylypiuk@ualberta.ca>]

Cleveland Jewish News.com
http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/articles/2004/12/17/news/world/ 
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(JTA) - Ukrainian region honors Jewish victims

An autonomous region within Ukraine honored Jews who died during the  
Holocaust. On Saturday, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea marked the  
Day of Remembrance of Krymchak and Jewish Victims of Nazism. Krymchaks,  
a subethnic group of Turkic-speaking Crimean Jews who numbered about  
10,000 before World War II, were almost entirely exterminated during  
the Holocaust, along with thousands of Crimea's prewar Ashkenazi Jews.  
During the remembrance day, which was sparked by local Jewish groups,  
flags flew at half-mast across the Black Sea peninsula.


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