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Тютчев · 14.05.2010, 04:45

May 6, 2010 23:59

I'm going to bow to the Russian people and the Red Army

On the eve of his visit to Moscow, coinciding with the celebration of 65 anniversary of the Great Victory, Israel's President Shimon Peres spoke of the sense of travel and personal attitude to the May 9

Moscow. May 6. INTERFAX.RU - Israeli President and Nobel Peace Prize, Shimon Peres on the eve of his Moscow visit, timed to celebrate the 65 th anniversary of victory in World War II, gave an interview to correspondents Interfax news agency and newspaper Kommersant Alexander Korzun and Leo Kagan.

- Mr. President, what is the most important message of your upcoming trip to Moscow?

For thousands of years, Jews endured persecutions, until Hitler came to the idea of complete annihilation of the Jewish people. And if the Red Army had not done that great victory, the world would look now quite different.

I'm going to bow to the Russian people and the Red Army on behalf of all Jews and people of Israel for having saved us and the whole planet from the Nazi scourge.

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About 80%of all deaths in WWII fell on the Soviet front, and among them 200,000 Soviet Jewish soldiers, 148 of which were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

I think I had the great honor to express my gratitude to the Jewish people to Russian people.

In the history of Eastern European Jewry, including the Russian, you can find a lot of unpleasant and sometimes terrible events. Jewish pogroms of the late XIX - early XX centuries, the Stalinist repression, anti-Semitism and so on, and we will always remember this.

However, referring to the general historical picture, I want to thank the Russian people for a great victory for a broad cultural stratum, which he awarded the Soviet Jews, a fact that allowed Jews to immigrate to Israel and now live here more than a million Russian citizens that have had a tremendous impact on the development of the State of Israel.

Thanks largely to immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Israel has evolved from a small country in the geographical dimension in a technological power. Despite the fact that our countries are geographically located in a completely different regions, historical and cultural values of our peoples are very close. Moreover, being quite far from the Slavic countries, Israel is the only country in the world (excluding the CIS), where the Russian language is used daily by more than 20%of the population.

- With what you personally connected Victory Day, and this war? You've immigrated to Israel in 1934, aged 11 years, were so far away from the tragedy of European Jewry.

For us, then the war was perceived in several different directions. We were important, three different phases of the disaster for all mankind. First, the war allies against the Nazi invaders, and then the Holocaust, and postwar developments.

I grew up in a Jewish settlement in Eastern Europe, studied at the Jewish school, and Hebrew from an early childhood was my mother tongue, at home also spoke in Russian and Yiddish. Half of the family, the younger, moved to Israel, the other half stayed there. Arriving in the Holy Land, we do not know what was happening there, we were unable to communication with family and not much to know about the world events. Information was quite enough.

How lost part of my family, rest in Belarus, we learned later. My grandfather, who had an important influence in my upbringing, the head of the Jewish community, along with his grandmother and other residents of the community were burnt alive by the fascists in the local synagogue. I learned about this only after a war. It was a very heavy personal tragedy for me.

But here, in what was then Palestine under the Mandate, the British encouraged men in his army, and my father went to serve in the army of Her Majesty. Along with a group of British soldiers he was taken prisoner when the Nazis occupied Greece. He and several of his comrades managed to escape, and some years they hid from German soldiers. Then, stealing fishing boat, they attempted to escape by sea. But the unfortunate father again caught him, and on this occasion was sent to prison camp near Auschwitz. Father managed to escape from there. After some time, he was again caught and has been trying to shoot, but his salvation Austrian priest closed it is threatening the soldiers, that Soviet troops tear them to shreds if they continue to shoot the prisoners without charge or trial.

My father returned home alive and unharmed. The war ended, the Nazis were on their knees, but the suffering of our people were not over. It was found that the survivors in the meat grinder of war and the Holocaust, Jews have nowhere to return, in front of them closed all the doors. Then Ben-Gurion visited the camp after the war, and impressed by what he saw, was determined to go through with the education of the state. Following a long war with the Nazis had to fight with the British for the right of a state in the land of Israel, which will take all the Jews and become their present homeland. I participated in this struggle.

The article fully:http://www.interfax.ru/txt.asp?sec=1483&id=135786

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And if the Red Army had not done that great victory, the world would look now quite different. I'm going to bow to the Russian people and the Red Army on behalf of all Jews and people of Israel for having saved us and the whole planet from the Nazi scourge. Читать дальше... About 80%of all deaths in WWII fell on the Soviet front, and among them 200,000 Soviet Jewish soldiers, 148 of which were awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. I think I had the great honor to express my gratitude to the Jewish people to Russian people. In the history of Eastern European Jewry, including the Russian, you can find a lot of unpleasant and sometimes terrible events. Jewish pogroms of the late XIX - early XX centuries, the Stalinist repression, anti-Semitism and so on, and we will always remember this. However, referring to the general historical picture, I want to thank the Russian people for a great victory for a broad cultural stratum, which he awarded the Soviet Jews, a fact that allowed Jews to immigrate to Israel and now live here more than a million Russian citizens that have had a tremendous impact on the development of the State of Israel. Thanks largely to immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Israel has evolved from a small country in the geographical dimension in a technological power. Despite the fact that our countries are geographically located in a completely different regions, historical and cultural values of our peoples are very close. Moreover, being quite far from the Slavic countries, Israel is the only country in the world (excluding the CIS), where the Russian language is used daily by more than 20%of the population. - With what you personally connected Victory Day, and this war? You've immigrated to Israel in 1934, aged 11 years, were so far away from the tragedy of European Jewry. For us, then the war was perceived in several different directions. We were important, three different phases of the disaster for all mankind. First, the war allies against the Nazi invaders, and then the Holocaust, and postwar developments. I grew up in a Jewish settlement in Eastern Europe, studied at the Jewish school, and Hebrew from an early childhood was my mother tongue, at home also spoke in Russian and Yiddish. Half of the family, the younger, moved to Israel, the other half stayed there. Arriving in the Holy Land, we do not know what was happening there, we were unable to communication with family and not much to know about the world events. Information was quite enough. How lost part of my family, rest in Belarus, we learned later. My grandfather, who had an important influence in my upbringing, the head of the Jewish community, along with his grandmother and other residents of the community were burnt alive by the fascists in the local synagogue. I learned about this only after a war. It was a very heavy personal tragedy for me. But here, in what was then Palestine under the Mandate, the British encouraged men in his army, and my father went to serve in the army of Her Majesty. Along with a group of British soldiers he was taken prisoner when the Nazis occupied Greece. He and several of his comrades managed to escape, and some years they hid from German soldiers. Then, stealing fishing boat, they attempted to escape by sea. But the unfortunate father again caught him, and on this occasion was sent to prison camp near Auschwitz. Father managed to escape from there. After some time, he was again caught and has been trying to shoot, but his salvation Austrian priest closed it is threatening the soldiers, that Soviet troops tear them to shreds if they continue to shoot the prisoners without charge or trial. My father returned home alive and unharmed. The war ended, the Nazis were on their knees, but the suffering of our people were not over. It was found that the survivors in the meat grinder of war and the Holocaust, Jews have nowhere to return, in front of them closed all the doors. Then Ben-Gurion visited the camp after the war, and impressed by what he saw, was determined to go through with the education of the state. Following a long war with the Nazis had to fight with the British for the right of a state in the land of Israel, which will take all the Jews and become their present homeland. I participated in this struggle. 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