The chief rabbi or Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine announced that an agreement has been reached with a construction firm to halt a building project on the site of a defunct Jewish cemetery, according to a July 30, 2008 report by the Jewish.ru web site. Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky did not disclose all the details of the agreement with the ATB firm, but praised its leader, Gennady Butkevich, for his understanding of the Jewish community's concerns. The Jewish cemetery went into disuse in the 1930s but still contains the remains of local Jews. In addition, thousands of people murdered by the Soviet secret police were buried there after the cemetery was shut down, prompting the decision to build a memorial complex on the site rather than the originally planned shopping mall.

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