Victor Sebestyen

Why is Ukraine honouring the monsters of the past?

Bernard Wasserstein describes the dreadful fate of Jews in Krakowiec in the 1940s – and is astonished that a statue has been erected there to one of their chief persecutors

The synagogue in Krakowiec. [Alamy]
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  • A Small Town in Ukraine: The Place We Came From, the Place We Went Back To

    Bernard Wasserstein

    Allen Lane, pp. 293, £20

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