JDC Delivers Aid to Homebound Kiev Jews
JDC je poslao pomoć kijevskim Židovima
February 22, 2014
As unrest continues to roil Ukraine, JDC’s stepped-up relief efforts include delivering food and other urgent necessities to Jews in downtown Kiev where dozens have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces in recent days. JDC’s Alena Druzhynina entered the tense Independence Square area to bring a package of food to Mihail Solomonovich, an 82-year-old pensioner who has been homebound since the worst of the violence began.
..... The crisis that has plagued Ukraine over the past month has impacted the most vulnerable of Ukraine’s estimated 300,000 Jews. JDC has responded by activating its emergency network and providing services and supplies to elderly Jews and single-parent families in their homes. Home-care workers have spent the night with the most frail seniors and mobile units have been responding to urgent needs.....
Kako su neredi nastavljeni u Ukrajini, JDC se uključio sa svojom pomoći slanjem hrane i ostalih nužnih potrebština Židovima koji se nalaze u donjem dijelu Kijeva, gdje su posljednjih dana desetine ubijene u sukobima između onih koji protestiraju i sigurnosnih snaga. Tako je aktivistica JDC-a Alena Druzhynina došla u područje " Trga nezavisnosti" kako bi donijela paket hrane Mihailu Solomonovichu, starom 82 godine, koji je "zarobljen" u kući otkad su najgori neredi započeli... Kriza koja je zadesila Ukrajinu u zadnjim mjesecima je zahvatila najugroženije u Ukrajini- oko 300.000 Židova. JDC je odgovorio tako da je aktivirao mrežu za pomoć i osigurao da u kuće dođu servisi i potrebštine za starije Židove i obitelji s jednim roditeljem. Pomagaći su proveli noć sa najtežim slučajevima starijih osoba, a mobilne jedinice su također odgovarale na urgenstne potrebe.
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KIEV
(EJP)---Jewish leaders have expressed concen over 'the continued violence in
Ukraine and fear that Jews might be targeted.
Since
the conflict between anti-government protesters and the authorities started in
November, Ukrainian Jewish leaders have urged their constituents to avoid
getting involved in the conflict. But an unknown number of Jews have taken part
in fighting, according to some sources. Jewish
institutions have reportedly heightened security measures, schools have closed
and Jews have undertaken to minimize their presence on the street, to avoid
"falling into the hands" of frustrated and anti-Semitic demonstrators, Hillel
Cohen, a representative of Hatzalah Ukraine, a local aid organization, told The
Jerusalem Post. Alex
Selsky, CEO of the World Forum of Russian- Speaking Jewry (WFRJ) said that "the
community has a fear that the anger will be directed at the Jews, as has
happened in the past."
Otkad su konflikti između protuvladinih demonstranata i vladinih snaga započeli u mjesecu studenom, lideri ukrajinskih Židova su tražili do svojih članova da izbjegavaju uključenje u konflikte. Ali je nepoznati broj Židova ipak učestvovao u borbama. Židovske institucije su poduzele mjere sigurnosti, škole su zatvorene, prisustvo Židova je smanjeno na ulicama nastojeći da ne "padnu u ruke" frustriranim i antisemitskim demonstrantima. Hillel Cohen, koji je predstavnik "Hatzalah Ukraine" je to izjavio za "Jeruzalem Post". Alex Selsky, CEO ( Svjetski forum Židova koji govore ruski jezik) (WFRJ) je rekao da Zajednica strahuje da će se mržnja usmjeriti na Židove, kako se to događalo u prošlosti.