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Euroasian Jewish News
Congress Contributions to Holocaust Remembrance Day
00.00.0000 Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) representatives have taken part in events dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. These events took place in Almaty, Astana, Kyiv, Ekaterinburg, Kaliningrad, Kostanay, Moscow, Pavlodar, Tbilisi, and a number of other cities from countries whose communities are part of the EAJC.
In Moscow, EAJC supportes the XI Yearly International School Conference "Holocaust: Memory and Warning" in the Poklonnaya Gora Memorial Synagogue. The conference was organized by the Holocaust Center and Fund.
Representatives of the EAJC Moscow office visited a solemn ceremony of lighting candles in memeory of the Holocaust voctoms, which commenced in the Moscow Community Center in Marina Roscha. Six candles for six million Jews were lit by: Head Rabbi of Russia (FJCR) Berel Lazar, Deputy Head to the UK to the UK Mission to Russia Denis Keefe, On-going Deputy Ambassador of the FRG Rudolph Adam, Deputy Head of the MIA Russia Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights Sergei Tolkalin, First Secretary of the Israel Embassy Yossi Tavor, and the Ambassador of Poland Woitech Zaionckowsky.
During the first 2011 meeting of the EAJC Congress College, the victims of the Holocaust were commemorated by a minute of silence.
In Kaliningrad, the EAJC delegation, headed by Professor Michael Chlenov, participated in the solemn opening of the "To the victims of the Palmnicken March of Death," which was a part of Holocaust Remembrance Day events.
In Almaty, EAJC General Council Member, Chairman of the "Mitzvah"Association of Jewish Communities and Cultural Centers of Kazakhstan Alexander Baron spoke at the solemn gathering for Holocaust Remembrance Day that took place in the "Rimon" Jewish community center. He and Rabbi Shevah Zlatopolsky lit the first memorial candle in honor of the dead. Then other participants of the gathering also lit memorial fires.
An International Holocaust Remembrance day event took place in the Central Synagogue of Tbilisi at the initiative of the International Women's Organization "Project Kesher," which is a part of the EAJC. Among those who took part in the event was Deputy Chairman of the Georgian Parliamant Rusudan Kervalishvili, as well as representatives of the government, the diplomatic corpus, and national diasporas.
In Ekaterinburg, EAJC General Council Member, President of the Jewish National Cultural Autonomy of Sverdlovsk Oblast Michael Ostrach spoke at a gathering of students and professors at the Russian State Professional Pedagogic University (RSPPU), dedicated to International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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