MINSK, 2 December (BelTA) – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Belarus to Israel Yevgeny Vorobyov took part in the online meeting “Lobby to perpetuate the memory of Jewish heroism during the Great Patriotic War” on 1 December. The meeting was organized by the Knesset of Israel, BelTA learned from the Belarusian embassy in Israel.
Yevgeny Vorobyov spoke about numerous examples of the joint fight of the Belarusian and Jewish peoples against the Nazis in Belarus. He touched upon the existence of Jewish partisan units on the Belarusian territory, including a unit of the Bielski brothers in Nalibokskaya Pushcha.
The ambassador pointed to similarity of approaches that Belarus and Israel use to study the joint past and maintain historical memory. He informed about the events the embassy held as part of the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War, including the participation of Belarusian specialists in an educational seminar on the basis of the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center, and wreath ceremonies at the monuments erected in memory of Holocaust victims and soldiers-liberators.
He cited the implementation of a memorial project in the former Novgorod ghetto in Belarus as an example of international partnership in perpetuating the memory of the fight against Nazism.
The ambassador confirmed readiness for further Belarusian-Israeli cooperation to perpetuate the historical memory.
