Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko and his wife laying flowers at Symon Petliura's grave in Paris, 2005. On May 25, 1926, at 14:12, by the Gibert bookstore, Petliura was walking on Rue Racine near Boulevard Saint-Michel of the Latin Quarter in Paris and was approached by Sholom Schwartzbard.
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Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko and his wife laying flowers at Symon Petliura's grave in Paris, 2005. On May 25, 1926, at 14:12, by the Gibert bookstore, Petliura was walking on Rue Racine near Boulevard Saint-Michel of the Latin Quarter in Paris and was approached by Sholom Schwartzbard.
Symon Petlyura, in full Symon Vasylevych Petlyura, Petlyura also spelled Petliura, (born May 10, 1879, Poltava, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died May 25, 1926, Paris, France), socialist leader of Ukraine’s unsuccessful fight for independence following the Russian revolutions of 1917.
Indeed, in 1926, Scholem Schwarzbard, a Jewish anarchist, killed the UPR’s leader Symon Petliura in a Paris street in revenge for the pogroms. The trial that followed became a cause celebre, one...
Ukraine honors nationalist whose troops killed 50,000 Jews Country for the first time observes a minute of silence in memory of Symon Petliura, a 1920s statesman killed by a Russia-born Jew By...
KIEV— A statue in memory of Symon Petliura was unveiled several months ago in the Jewish neighborhood of Vinnitsa. The monument was initiated and erected by the Ukraine authorities. Petliura,...
The post then cites Sholem Schwarzbad, a Jewish, Russian-born French poet, who in 1926 assassinated Symon Petliura, the former head of the Ukrainian People's Republic. Schwarzbard, who had lost...
Petliura attended the first All-Ukrainian Army Congress held in Kiev in May 1917 as a delegate, where he was elected head of the Ukrainian General Army Committee on May 18. With the proclamation of the Ukrainian Central Council on June 28, 1917, Petliura became the First Secretary for military matters.