"Ukraine is not full of Nazis. Jews who are living here know the truth. We feel anger because of this propaganda – before the war, we didn't even realize how strong it was."
- Ihor Shatkhin, assistant to Rabbi Avraham Wolf, Chief Rabbi of Odesa

"Nobody knows about Jewish life in Ukraine before the war. There is a huge number of Jewish people here. We have the full aspects of Jewish life – synagogues, kindergartens. You can be born Jewish and die Jewish."