The Russian city of Rostov-on-Don has agreed to acknowledge the Jewish identity of Holocaust victims killed there by the Nazis.
The municipality’s Memorial Council last week announced its decision to revise a memorial plaque at the Zmievskaya Balka mass grave to mention the Jewish identity of the majority of the approximately 27,000 bodies buried there in 1942, the Russian Jewish Congress said.
Read more: http://www.jta.org/2013/12/17/news-opinion/world/russian-jews-win-rostov-holocaust-commemoration-fight#ixzz2nkqnoHcA
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