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However, there is anti-Semitism in Subcarpathia again. The Subcarpathian newspaper ‘Serebrianaya Zemlia’ [Silver Land] for seven years has systematically published a series of very anti-Semitic articles under the common title ‘The Jewish issue.’
We wrote a letter to the chairman of local administration signed by Moshkovich, chairman of the Jewish community, Galpert, member of the board of the Jewish community, and me. In this letter we wrote that this title and the contents of the articles remind many residents of Subcarpathia of publications in fascist newspapers during the occupation of our region by Hungarian fascists from 1939 to1944. There is article 161 in the Criminal Code of Ukraine about the fomentation of national conflicts that is subject to the rule of law. The Jewish community of Uzhgorod asks to take measures to stop anti-Semitic publications in the newspaper ‘Serebrianaya Zemlia’ and punish the initiators of these publications. The administration replied that they would take measures, and if other articles of this kind should be published again they would take care of this issue.
After all we, Subcarpathian Jews, lived during the Holocaust and this makes us feel sick in our hearts. I don’t know when there will be an end to this, but we have to fight. We cannot put up with this kind of thing, we must not keep silent, or anti-Semites will raise their heads again.
We wrote a letter to the chairman of local administration signed by Moshkovich, chairman of the Jewish community, Galpert, member of the board of the Jewish community, and me. In this letter we wrote that this title and the contents of the articles remind many residents of Subcarpathia of publications in fascist newspapers during the occupation of our region by Hungarian fascists from 1939 to1944. There is article 161 in the Criminal Code of Ukraine about the fomentation of national conflicts that is subject to the rule of law. The Jewish community of Uzhgorod asks to take measures to stop anti-Semitic publications in the newspaper ‘Serebrianaya Zemlia’ and punish the initiators of these publications. The administration replied that they would take measures, and if other articles of this kind should be published again they would take care of this issue.
After all we, Subcarpathian Jews, lived during the Holocaust and this makes us feel sick in our hearts. I don’t know when there will be an end to this, but we have to fight. We cannot put up with this kind of thing, we must not keep silent, or anti-Semites will raise their heads again.
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Uzhgorod
Ukraine
Interview
Stepan Neuman