A ceremony of lighting candles for Holocaust victims will take place in the Moscow Jewish Community Center on January 27, 2010, according to the Interfax-Religion website.
Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR) Alexander Boroda, representatives of foreign embassies, and international organizations working in the country are expected to attend the ceremony.
"Annual Holocaust victims commemoration appeals to preserve historical memory of millions of human lives perished in World War II and to condemn Nazism in all its aspects, so that the tragedy of genocide can never be repeated," the FJCR said.
According to the UN General Assembly Resolution of November 1, 2005, the whole world commemorates January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, since it was the day in 1945 when the Russian Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp where millions of Jews were killed.
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