This week: We’re approaching six months of Russia’s war in Ukraine, and by extension, six months of the Ukrainian refugee crisis. So I talk with Mariia Hershova, a 23-year-old Ukrainian Jew helping refugees in Poland, about how the refugee situation has evolved, and the pride of Ukrainian Jewry.
Mariia Hershova's Ukraine resources to learn about Ukrainian Jewry and to help Ukraine:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BgYrDhot9-6VIeWmNpKKFhvNOUmbUsq_9MZFAKuZ4S0/edit?usp=sharing
Say hello! Lev@tcjewfolk.com
https://jewfolk-inc.creator-spring.com/
https://tcjewfolk.com/donate/
To help Ukraine:
https://tcjewfolk.com/resources-to-help-ukraine/
The Holodomor genocide:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25058256
Donate to Hillel and JCC Krakow:
https://www.friendsofjcckrakow.org/ukraine
https://en.hillel.pl/wesprzyj
My reporting on Ukraine:
https://www.jpost.com/magazine/one-ukraine-two-jews-577695
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/someone-has-to-pay-for-it-aid-workers-and-organizers-on-the-burdens-and-benefits-of-american-jewish-missions-to-the-ukrainian-border/
Antisemitism in Eastern Europe:
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/03/28/most-poles-accept-jews-as-fellow-citizens-and-neighbors-but-a-minority-do-not/
Transcript:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13fbj_63OxLbKohdaJiwsHLSRvBw1XksQglO_xuh9Mqc/edit?usp=sharing