On April 28, 2010, a conference was held in Haifa (Israel) devoted to the 65th anniversary of Victory in Great Patriotic War and the 66th anniversary of the complete Leningrad liberation of the blockade.
On April 28, 2010, a conference was held in Haifa (Israel) devoted to the 65th anniversary of Victory in Great Patriotic War and the 66th anniversary of the complete Leningrad liberation of the blockade.
Organizers: Information and Business Center (IBC) of St.Petersburg in Israel, with the participation of Consulate General of Russia in Israel.
The veterans of the Great Patriotic War and the inhabitants of besieged Leningrad, now living in Israel, as well as the representatives of Israeli Unions of WW II Veterans and the Union of Leningrad Siege Residents, gathered at the Information and Business Center of St.Petersburg in Haifa.
S.M. Shapiro, Head of IBC, read the congratulatory letters to the participants on behalf of A.V. Prokhorenko, Chairman of St.Petersburg Committee for External Relations, and on behalf of the team of All-Russia Center for Emergency and Radiation Medicine named after A.M. Nikiforov at MES of Russia (St.Petersburg) and Professor S.S. Aleksanin, its director.
On behalf of of St.Petersburg Government, the heroic defenders of Leningrad and the siege of Leningrad residents were awarded the medals «In Honor of 65th Anniversary of Complete Leningrad Liberation from the Nazi Blockade». The medals were handed by S.M. Shapiro, Head of IBC of St.Petersburg in Israel, SM Shapiro and S.M. Meyster, Vice-Consul of the Consulate General of Russia in Haifa.
The conference participants shared their memories and reported the real facts about the tragic days and years of sieged Leningrad. Many speeches represented the unique material and documents never published before, concerning the cultural life of the besieged city, the work of the city as rear area, military operations, renowned inhabitants of Leningrad. The songs of wartime years were resounding in the hall, as well as the Leningrad Symphony by Shostakovich, the records of radio broadcasts siege of Leningrad, and poems by Olga Bergholz; fragments of documentary reels about besieged Leningrad were shown.
For more details, contact: Semon Milhaylovich Shapiro at the IBC of St.Petersburg in Haifa, tel. +972 (4) 852-0073, +972 (4) 852-3280, fax +972 (4) 852-6558, e-mail: spectr@barak.net.il .
News source: Committee for External Relations of St.Petersburg