With help from the British consul, he finally made it out of the war zone and back to his family in May of 1940. When he finally reached Russian territory, the Jews there were suspicious of speaking to a stranger about their government. Even once they reached relative safety in Lviv, he witnessed long lines for bread and alarming prices for other necessities.
Refugees streamed across the border, according to Goldberg, some without even shoes on their feet. The agency publicized his story in order to raise money to help those still in harm’s way. When he finally got back home, he described his hair-raising escape and the horrible scenes he witnessed along the way to an aid agency. In order to get back to the young family he had left behind in Tel Aviv for his brief visit to the Old Country, he had to travel through Russia. Goldberg was visiting his parents when the war started. Refugees Eliyana Adler, Pennsylvania State University But it is helpful to observe it with a thicker and more complex sense of historical perspective. This online forum will not be the last word said on a grave political and moral crisis that is not likely to abate soon. To help us make sense of these ironies, JQR has convened a group of four experts of Eastern European Jewish history to provide insight into Ukraine then and now: Eliyana Adler, Elissa Bemporad, Natan Meir, and Jeffrey Veidlinger. And yet, Ukraine, like history itself, is multidimensional it was also home at one time to the world’s largest population of Jews and the place of extraordinary Jewish cultural vitality from Poltava in the east to Lviv in the west, not to mention the jewel of Odessa in the south. To students of Jewish history, it is a source of near incredulity that the same recurrent site of mass violence against Jews-from the Khmielnitsky massacres of the mid-seventeenth century to the brutal killing fields during and after World War I to the bloodlands soiled by Nazi murderers in Operation Barbarossa in 1941-is home to a fledgling democracy and an unlikely and inspiring Jewish president. As much of the world expresses sorrow and solidarity with the Ukrainian people-and admiration for its president, Volodymyr Zelensky-the ironies of history abound.
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