Long before the Nazi’s showed up, Ukrainian non-jews were murdering jews in a massive, celebrated fashion. My grandmother’s parents brought her to Canada and eventually resettled in Los Angeles. Her grandfather was slaughtered (after taking out a dozen attackers, the story goes). The Ukrainians invented the pogrom. So if it was a stone monument dedicated not to Nazis but to, say, the cossacks or even those who welcomed them… well, I wish they’d used a dremel.
My family was lucky. Some stayed and survived to the current generation and others got out before it got even worse.
