The Day of Salvation and Liberation - 2020
The Day of Salvation and Liberation of European Jews from the Nazis (26 Iyar) established in...
On May 31, 2019, Jews from Russia, the CIS countries and abroad celebrated the Day of Salvation and Liberation, dedicated to the victory over Nazism in World War II.
Events on the occasion of the significant date were held in a number of Russian cities, Ukraine, Belarus, Israel and other countries.
On the morning of May 31, in memory of those who saved the Jewish people from complete destruction, representatives of the Jewish community laid wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden in Moscow. On the eve of the capital, solemn ceremonies were held in the Memorial Synagogue on Poklonnaya Mount, in the Moscow Jewish a community center in Maryina Roshcha and in the Moscow Choral Synagogue.
Three candles – for the Glory of the Almighty, by whose will the deliverance came, in memory of the victims of the war and in honor of the soldiers-liberators, were lit by RJK President Yuri Kanner, Vice-President of the STMEGI Fund Isai Zakharyaev and Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Amar. The memorial prayer – Kaddish – was read by Rabbi David Yushuvaev.
During the solemn events, the premiere of the documentary film “Crimea” by Marat Mardakhaev, sponsored by the STMEGI Charity Foundation, dedicated to the Holocaust on the peninsula. Solemn ceremonies and prayers were held in more than 40 synagogues and Jewish community centers throughout Russia.
On May 30, in Anatevka village near Kiev, a solemn opening of the memorial composition-square “Iyar 26” took place – in honor of the Day of Salvation and Liberation. The ceremonies were held in Israel. The procession and rally of the participants of the “Immortal Regiment” action took place on the Day of Salvation and Liberation at the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. Several hundred people with portraits of their fathers and grandfathers who fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War marched in columns to the Memorial to Jewish Soldiers of the Soviet Army.
In the center of the Old City in Jerusalem at the Western a solemn prayer was held with the participation of the Chief Ashkenazi and Sephardic Rabbis of Israel, David Lau and Yitzhak Yosef, as well as the chairman of the Council of Rabbis of Europe, Chief Rabbi of Moscow Pinchas Goldschmidt.
