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Hanukkah symbolizes spirit of Jewish nation. All the 8 days of the holiday we honor the memory of heroes who stood up for their religion, Commandments and traditions. And it's great that young generation has an ability to learn from such an example of fortitude and identify two–thousand–year
50;long history with the history of their granddads' heroism.

A charity action “Hanukkah Present” was initiated by the board of the Minsk Jewish Campus Committee that includes directors of all the Jewish organizations situated in the MJC. The idea was to congratulate former ghetto and concentration camp prisoners, as well as Righteous Gentile who can hardly move or walk on Hanukkah. Students from the Jewish Student Organization “Hillel” and the participants of the youth program “Generations' Relations” of the Jewish Community Center “Emunah”.

This festive action has become not only a connection of historical feat with the present and future, but also a great lesson.

«I think, — a thirteen–year–old project participant says, — we should not only take everything from our lives, but also learn how to take away, especially if it concerns our elderly people. We owe them our lives. They performed a great deed! Thousands of people fought for our country during WWII, but few survived. We should help them, take care of them, and never let them feel lonely. Veterans dye and year by year fewer and fewer people who witnessed Shoah can tell about the horror of war. We are lucky that we are able to listen to their stories at first hand».

The action showed the veterans who managed not only to survive the war, but also to save the light of Hanukkah in their souls and to share it, that one “big Jewish family” remembers their deed and is still grateful to them.

Presents for the charity action “Hanukkah Present” were provided by the Welfare Jewish Fund Hesed–Rakhamim and consisted of candies, juice, dried fruit, and greeting cards made by members of Hesed Day Center.

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