Russia handed over to Uruguay a copy of the letter of the Bukovinian Jews to Marshal Zhukov

Victory Day. File photoMONTEVIDEO, May 10.The Russian State Military Archive handed over to the Ambassador of Uruguay in Moscow Daniel Castillos a copy of the letter of thanks from the Committee for Assistance to Jewish Refugees from Bukovina in Uruguay to Marshal of the USSR Georgy Zhukov, head of the Russian diplomatic mission in Uruguay Andrey Budaev told RIA Novosti. and in memory of the Soviet soldiers-liberators who defeated Nazism in World War II.» The director of the Russian State Military Archive solemnly presented the Ambassador of Uruguay to the Russian Federation, Daniel Castillos Gomez, with a copy of a letter of thanks received from the Committee for Assistance to Jewish Refugees from Bukovina who ended up in Uruguay, by Soviet military leader Georgy Zhukov This unique colorful document on parchment with text in Spanish and Yiddish was recently found in the personal fund of Marshal of Victory,» Budaev said. He clarified that the authors of the document thank Zhukov for saving the city of Chernivtsi (now Ukraine) from Nazi Germany. «Your courage and the strategy in leading the glorious Red Army in the liberation of Bukovina and its capital Chernivtsi evokes our gratitude. Please accept the respect and sincere greetings of those who are proud of this magnificent victory over fascism, thanks to which thousands of compatriots, Jewish brothers and sisters, were liberated from the clutches of oppression and slavery,» the letter says, a copy of which is at the disposal of the agency. The letter was discovered in Zhukov's personal collection recently and was not dated. Presumably, he was sent in the spring of 1944, when the troops of the First Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal Georgy Zhukov liberated Chernivtsi and saved more than 14 thousand Jews from extermination by the retreating Wehrmacht troops. A copy of the historical document will be transmitted through Ambassador Castillos Jewish community of Uruguay.The procession of the Immortal Regiment took place in Kyrgyzstan for the first time in three years