(Jewish Group) Roof collapses on dilapidated 18th-century former synagogue in Ukraine
Large parts of the roof of a centuries-old crumbling former synagogue in Ukraine have collapsed.
The latest damage to what remains of the Great Synagogue of Brody, an 18th-century house of worship near Lviv, in western Ukraine, was observed this month. It follows an earlier implosion from 2006, Jewish.ru reported Wednesday.
The building is listed as a monument but authorities in Ukraine, one of Europe’s poorest countries, have not taken action to salvage the dilapidated structure for years. Ukraine has hundreds of former synagogues, some of them as old as the Brody one, in various states of disrepair.
The Turei Zahav Jewish Community, an organization that helps revive Jewish life and heritage in Western Ukraine, has warned repeatedly in recent years that inaction on the synagogue would lead to its disappearance.
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Brody had many thousands of Jews before the Holocaust; most were murdered. No Jews live there today.
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