Concern over the construction of a pig factory on a mass grave of Jews murdered in the Holocaust About 5,000 people were killed – of whom about 3,000 were Jews.The planned factory is located in the city of Constantinova in the Donetsk region, about 60 meters from a monument erected in 2005 in memory of the 3,000 Jews who murdered the Nazis during the Holocaust, and were buried there in a mass grave. Rabbi Vishecki and Jews living in the area claim that since they do not know the exact extent of the killing ravine, there is great concern that the plant will actually be erected on their grave. The factory entrepreneur himself is a Jew, which further complicates the story.”According to the records of the authorities, it is customary to absorb 20 meters on each side of the monument as an area where the killing area was to be,” says Vishetsky. “In fact, the local residents claim that the killing area is more than 20 meters, because about 5,000 people were murdered there.”
He added: “They want to build a new plant to European standards about 60 meters from the monument. This is a dangerous boundary and it is inevitable that in this area people will be buried. It is also a matter of respect for the place. Indecent insistence. We asked the district governor to keep the plant at least 400-500 meters away. ”
“Murder them again”
Boris Kraftian, an American Jewish businessman working in Ukraine, Vladimir Nginsky, a Jewish resident of the area, insists that the plant was built on the killing zone. The two even approached the mayor, the governor and MPs for their intervention.
“Mini Babi Yar,” Nginsky defines the place – and Kraftian wonders: “Can you imagine a Jewish cemetery where pigs are burned? Why should any of the places in Ukraine put such a factory in a Jewish cemetery where there is a monument? It boils me down to having lost 76 of my family members In the Holocaust. ” Chief Rabbi Vishecki himself wrote to the governor: “How are you not ashamed 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, to allow those Jews murdered back then to be murdered?”
However, not everyone in the Jewish community in Ukraine agrees to the demand to move the factory. The Association of Jewish Communities in Ukraine sent staff members to the scene and issued a report stating that according to the information they received, the protection of the heritage site was not violated.
“In our estimation, the situation is artificially inflated to publicize local activists, or there is a suspicion that this is a local business dispute driven by those who oppose the establishment of the plant in the area, thus emphasizing the matter of the Jewish mass grave. The union continues to monitor the situation to make sure there is no damage to Jewish graves.” .
