Human rights group: Jewish mausoleum fire in Ukraine possibly arson – Municipal authorities gave Jewish community permission to add memorial monuments to the park surrounding the mausoleum. | The Jerusalem Post

A Jewish mausoleum in western Ukraine burned down in what a human rights group said may have been a deliberate arson attack connected with a dispute over a commemoration project.

The grave site of Rabbi Hillel Lichtenstein, a 19th-century Jewish sage and former chief rabbi of the Ukrainian city of Kolomyia, was partially destroyed last week in a fire that began in the early hours of the morning, according to a report published on Monday by the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group.