"If it hadn't been for those whose graves are scattered from the Volga to the Elbe, if it hadn't been for those who reached Berlin and made an signature on the walls of Reichstag, none of us would exist," the Rabbi said, recalling that the Nazis condemned the Jewish people for extermination.
"That's why Victory Day for the Jews is a special holiday. And our gratitude to the warriors of the Soviet Army is boundless," Lazar stressed.
The delegation comprised Jew veterans who had fought in all combat arms and who worked on the home-front during WWII, as well as schoolchildren of Moscow Jewish schools.
Yesterday, Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexy II and Chairman of Russia's Mufti Council sheikh Ravil Gainutdin laid wreaths to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
