From the MT:
“Putin Inaugurates Memorial to
Jewish WWII Resistance”
President Vladimir Putin has
inaugurated on Tuesday a monument dedicated to Jewish heroes of resistance in
Nazi concentration camps and ghettos during World War II. Putin opened
construction of the monument at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow
with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in January 2018. Members of the
Jewish resistance “are victims, prisoners of concentration camps,” Putin said
at the event. “But they are without a doubt also winners.” Businessman Viktor
Vekselberg, who chairs the museum’s board of trustees and attended the event
alongside senior Russian Jewish figures, said the monument’s opening held
personal significance for him. Sixteen
members of his family were among the estimated 10,000 Jews held in the ghetto
of Drohobych, where he was born 12 years after the end of the war, Vekselberg
told Interfax. “The monument we’re opening today is an important symbol of an
unforgettable and painful wound, a great memory and a symbol of the fact that
we must do everything to prevent the slightest hint of a possible repeat,” he
was quoted as saying.
^ This is important to note
because for decades Holocaust memorials in Russia and the rest of the USSR only
stated that “Soviet citizens” were imprisoned and/or killed and didn’t use the
word “Jew.” Also many Russians (as well as many other people around the world)
know little to nothing about Jewish resistance to the Germans – in Ghettoes, in
the forests and in concentration and death camps. ^
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