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Vladimir Putin unveils Russia's first major memorial to Jewish resistance during the Holocaust
Russian president launched the memorial inside Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre
June 5, 2019 11:21
Russian president launched the memorial inside Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre
June 5, 2019 11:21Vladimir Putin this week opened Russia’s first major monument dedicated to Jewish participants of the resistance in concentration camps during the Second World War.
The memorial of black and white marble, which depicts hands forcing open the shutters of a door, is located inside Moscow’s Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre.
It was unveiled by the Russian president on Tuesday, a little over a year after he inaugurated its construction in January 2018 with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Members of the Jewish resistance “were victims, prisoners of concentration camps, but they are without a doubt also winners,” Mr Putin said, according to the Moscow Times.
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