Your article deals with the horrors of rape as a policy of war. Why then illustrate this piece with a photograph of a Jewish girl raped in Poland, which, though striking and horrible, describes an act--repulsive to be sure--quite outside the text? I find the photograph an attempt to stir needlessly old animosities between Jews and Ukrainians. The governments of Israel and Ukraine have made strides toward forgiving and forgetting, with intent to forge harmonious future relations. It seems that someone at TIME is not too keen on Jewish-Ukrainian rapprochement. How else can you explain the apparently Ukrainophobic attitude of the people who selected a picture tangentially, at best, relevant to the text, but full of reprehensible innuendo and inaccuracies?
Danylo H. Struk
Editor in Chief
Encyclopedia of Ukraine
Toronto