Jews in Ukraine�s second-largest city are protesting a plan to build a residential area near the site of a World War II-era Jewish ghetto. Earlier this month, leaders of the Jewish community in Kharkov appealed to city authorities to halt the construction of an apartment complex that would require some Holocaust memorial markers to be removed from the area.

In a letter to the mayor, Jewish leaders, headed by Kharkov Chief Rabbi Moshe Moskowitz and Alexander Kaganovsky, chairman of the city�s Jewish religious community, described the plan as unacceptable because it would affect the site �where probably the most tragic events in the history of the world took place.
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