Municipal authorities gave Jewish community permission to add memorial monuments to the park surrounding the mausoleum.

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.

The watchdog said the fire was the second arson within two months committed at the grave site, which is located inside a sealed room at the center of a Kolomyia park that used to be a Jewish cemetery.

The previous arson occurred on September 18 and was extinguished before it spread.

Human rights group: Jewish mausoleum fire in Ukraine possibly arson - Diaspora - Jerusalem Post