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Stepan Bandera

Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Michael Brodsky in Kyiv on his first day back since before the Russian invasion, May 16, 2022. (Courtesy)
June 25, 2023, 10:13 am
Israel tells Russia to not lecture it on Holocaust memory, in spat over envoy remarks
Russian’s Foreign Ministry pans Israeli ambassador in Kyiv, who said Ukrainians see resistance fighters who collaborated with the Nazis as ‘heroes’
By ToI Staff
Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, on January 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 1, 2022, 10:34 pm
Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists march in honor of Nazi collaborator
Stepan Bandera led Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought alongside Nazi Germany during WWII, killing thousands of Jews and Poles
By Agencies
Illustrative photo of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men dressed in white robes on their way to the synagogue in Uman, Ukraine, on the eve of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) in 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
March 13, 2021, 6:51 am
Ukrainian senior academic proposes renaming city of Uman after Nazi collaborator
University lecturer suggests new name for city, a major pilgrimage site for Jews, in response to Israel’s complaints about honoring those who aided Nazi regime
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Participants of an annual event in honor of Stepan Bandera march through Kyiv, Ukraine on Jan. 1, 2021. (Genya Savilou/AFP)
January 4, 2021, 9:26 am
Hundreds march in Ukraine in annual tribute to Nazi collaborator
Stepan Bandera led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought alongside Nazi Germany during the Second World War, killed thousands of Jews and Poles
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Activists of various nationalist parties carry torches during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. The rally was organized to mark the birth anniversary of Stepan Bandera, founder of a rebel army that fought against the Soviet regime and who was assassinated in Germany in 1959. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 12, 2020, 4:50 am
Ukraine tells Israel not to criticize veneration for Nazi collaborators
Diplomat says Israeli protests about events honoring Stepan Bandera and others are ‘counterproductive,’ after ambassador condemned Kiev in open letter
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Marchers rally outside the Kyiv City State Administration during the torchlight procession of honor, dignity and freedom on the 111th birthday anniversary of OUN-B (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists) leader Stepan Bandera, Kyiv, January 1, 2020 (Pavlo_Bagmut/ Ukrinform / Barcroft Media via Getty Images, JTA)
January 11, 2020, 5:29 pm
Ukraine tells Israel to stay out of debate about honoring Nazi collaborators
Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel says honoring of Stepan Bandera is an internal issue, calls Israeli envoy’s comments against it ‘counterproductive’
By JTA
In this January 1, 2019, file photo, activists of various nationalist parties carry torches, Ukrainian national flags and a portrait of Stepan Bandera during a rally in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
August 31, 2019, 2:06 am
Grandson of Ukrainian fascist reckons with a legacy of Nazi collaboration
Steve Bandera’s grandfather Stepan led a movement whose followers killed tens of thousands of Jews and Poles
By Sam Sokol
Foremr Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the signing of a free trade agreement in the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, January 21, 2019. (Jim Hollander/Pool via AP)
January 24, 2019, 4:06 pm
Top Nazi hunter blasts visiting Ukraine leader for ignoring Holocaust complicity
Efraim Zuroff decries Poroshenko’s ‘chutzpah’ for equating Shoah with Soviet man-made famine in 1930s, says Kiev is perhaps worst offender on distortion of Jewish genocide
By Raphael Ahren
A statue of Stepan Bandera in Lviv, Ukraine, September 2014. (Courtesy Andrey Syasko/via JTA)
December 27, 2018, 4:40 pm
Ukraine celebrates Nazi collaborator, bans book critical of pogroms leader
State agencies have declared January 1 a commemoration day for WWII nationalist Stepan Bandera
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Screen capture from video showing Ukrainian nationalists in Kiev during a New Years Day march in which they chanted 'Jews out' in German, January 1, 2017. (screen capture: YouTube/FEDERAL AGENCY NEWS)
January 3, 2017, 9:33 pm
Ukrainian marchers in Kiev chant ‘Jews out’
Demonstrators celebrate the birthday of WWII Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera, who fought against Soviet army
By JTA
Limmud FSU founder Chaim Chesler, right, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, center, and Roman Kogan attending a Limmud event at the Lviv opera house, November 6, 2016. (Boris Bukhman)
November 8, 2016, 8:30 am
Jews gather in Ukrainian city that honors alleged Holocaust perpetrators
Nearly 1,000 attend concert and ceremony to mark ten years of Jewish learning conferences in former Soviet Union
By JTA
An illustrative photo of the city of Kiev. (Wikimedia)
July 7, 2016, 10:03 pm
Kiev renames major street to honor Russian Nazi collaborator
Stepan Bandera’s nationalist group urged Ukranians to ‘destroy’ Jews and Poles in the 1940s
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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