Work stopped on Golden Rose Hotel Project
Some of you may recall the story last week about the Golden Rose Hotel project. I am pleased to tell you that the project has been stopped. Since the article appeared six days ago, it has been discussed both in the international and Ukrainian media. It has been translated into Ukrainian and Russian, the two main languages of Ukraine, and a number of prominent commentators and public figures there have spoken out in support of the article (in contrast to some of the readers both on Ukrainian and Western websites who have left vicious anti-Semitic comments and comments amounting to Holocaust denial).Occasionally, there is is justice in this world.
Yesterday, Anna Herman, the spokesperson and chief advisor to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in the capital Kiev, spoke with the mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovy, and ordered that works on and abutting the Golden Rose complex in Lviv be stopped.
Herman said: “This historic place in Lviv has to be preserved. This place is important for the memory of hundreds of thousands of Jews murdered in the Lviv region. Even the Communists never built over this place. Or should we be more barbaric than them?”
In response, the mayor of Lviv assured the authorities in Kiev yesterday that works in and around the former Golden Rose complex were now being stopped.
Labels: anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, Lemberg, Lviv, Lvov, Ukraine
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:38 PM
2 Comments:
Reports like yours help to bring about positive change. We'll see what the Ukrainian government and local authorities do to address the situation.
Great news, well done Carl! Also credit to Tom Gross who wrote this piece on the Guardian's Comment Is Free (yes, I know...)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/02/ukraine-holocaust-denial-lviv
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