“Sobibor” – The Movie

The film was shot based on real events that occurred during the Second World War in the Nazi death camp Sobibor, in Poland. The film shows how, in just three weeks, together with a group of Soviet prisoners of war, Alexander Aronovich Pechersky, a lieutenant of the Soviet army, who was captured and imprisoned in the camp, managed to plan and carry out an unprecedented, successful uprising of prisoners from various European countries. On October 14th, 1943, about three hundred prisoners escaped from the camp, but most of them later died. All the prisoners who remained in Sobibor were killed, and the camp itself was soon destroyed.

“We hope that the film will inspire the audience to learn more about the history of the heroic successful uprising of Sobibor concentration camp prisoners, which became a unique event in the history of the Second World War,” – said EAJC President Mikhail Mirilashvili.

The film “Sobibor” became the directorial debut of the famous Russian actor Konstantin Khabensky, who also played the main role – a Soviet officer, a Jew, Alexander Pechersky.

The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress provided financial support to the Pechersky Foundation to promote and expand the international presentation of the film “Sobibor”, which has been released on May 3rd, 2018.

Public Diplomacy Project

Public Diplomacy is a special project created by Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. Its main goal is to form a comprehensive and objective representation of Israel nowadays and also strengthening ties with public opinion leaders in the region.

Israeli politicians, experts and journalists visit countries in Euro-Asian region and explain Israel’s position about the most important questions to the powerful people in all spheres. Moreover, delegations from the Euro-Asian region visits Israel to see this country with their own eyes.

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Institute for Euro-Asian Jewish Studies

The Institute for Euro-Asian Jewish Studies (IEAJS), founded by the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, is envisioned as an academic think-tank and platform for academic and professional exchange among leading experts that study Jewish communities of the Former Soviet Union, Balkan and Asian countries, as well as “transnational Jewish diasporas”—communities that are detached from their countries of origin.

The Institute will facilitate academic and applied studies that examine the current affairs and needs of Euro-Asian Jewish communities, their social and political standing in their host countries, as well as their relations with the State of Israel and other global and regional powers. It will also investigate Jewish migration processes and the historical, cultural and political heritage of these communities.

Communities, organizations included in the EAJC and Congress partners can assist in researching and collecting materials, selecting authors for publications, developing proposals and ordering projects (including their co-financing). Moreover, they can help organizing presentations of the Institute’s materials.

The institute, in partnership with colleagues from the countries of the former USSR, has launched a large-scale sociological study “Jewish communities of the post-Soviet space: the current state and the dynamic trends”. The study includes a survey of the Jewish (in the broad sense of the word) population of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Moldova in order to understand the development of the Jewish and other ethnic identities of these communities better, as well as to observe the current trends in the formation of Jewish communities. Additionally, the survey will help to evaluate the preferred mechanisms of joining the Jewish community by non-Jewish and mixed origin individuals. Moreover, it will help to examine migration dynamics, socio-economic status of various groups of Jews of these countries and their relationship to Israel.

The institute will be happy to assist communities in organizing this survey, and will provide them with the results of this study, which, in our opinion, should help in their future work planning.

Theatrical Competition “Memory of the people”

The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, in conjunction with the Youth Parliament under the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, held a theater festival-contest dedicated to the memory of Holocaust victims – “The Memory of the People” in order to preserve the memory of the events of the Holocaust tragedy. The organizers and partners of the contest were also the Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, the Russian Peace Foundation and Russian Union of Jewish Students.

The competition involved youth creative teams of Russia; it consists of two stages, regional and federal. Participants presented their work to the regional organizing committee, the best teams showed their performances in Moscow.

The winner of the contest in 2018 and the winner of the prize for “Best Performance” was the only Russian theater studio organized in the orphanage. The performance “Memory”, presented by the theater-studio “Children’s Island” of the Ivanovo Special (Correctional) Children’s Home Rainbow, received the majority of the jury’s votes. The organizers and partners of the “Memory of the People” contest announced that the contest will be held every year.

“Rod`n`ya“ Project – family history research

“Rod`n`ya“ Project was carried out through the cooperation of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress, Hillel International and Genesis Philanthropy Group.

“Rod`n`ya“ Project is a leadership educational program that enables young Jewish leaders to get acquainted with their family history and contribute to the development and strengthening of community life.

For several months the project participants were exploring their roots, the history of their families and communities. They were studying the Jewish history and tradition, visiting archives and looking through the family albums.

For a detailed study of a family history, 45 Jewish students from Russia, Ukraine and Israel visited Poland and the Czech Republic. The participants made a real expedition, visited places where before the Second World War numerous Jewish communities lived and flourished. In the framework of the project, students also strengthened their leadership skills, gained new tools for project management, and also collected material for further planning and implementation of their own projects, in order to keep the memory of both their families in particular and Jewish people as a whole.

Memorial Candle Monument

The monument will be erected in Jerusalem in memory of the participants in World War II and the siege of Leningrad. The project was initiated by the Committee for External Relations of the Government of St. Petersburg in cooperation with the Coordinating Council of Organizations of Russian-speaking Compatriots of Israel and its members, the Union of World War II Veterans and the Union of Leningrad Siegebreakers in Israel. The monument is created with the funding and support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.

The site of the monument was chosen: promenade in the area of ​​Armon HaNaziv, from where it opens a unique panoramic view of the Old City of Jerusalem, one of the most beautiful observation sites in Jerusalem, south of the Old City. Numerous tourists from all over the world who want to touch the unique atmosphere of the city come here. In the translation from Hebrew Armon HaNatsiv means “the palace of the governor”. In the 30s of the last century, the English, who ruled then in Israel, built here a central residence for the British governor. Today (after 1948), the headquarters of UN observers is located here.

Supporting organizations of Former Prisoners of Fascism

The project is aimed at assisting Jews to former underage prisoners of the ghetto and Nazi concentration camps, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova.

The main goals and objectives of the project are:

– Socio-psychological and medical rehabilitation of members of the organization – former prisoners of the ghetto and concentration camps through, medical and medicinal assistance, rehabilitation.

– Conducting publishing and educational activities. Preservation of the memory and memories of former prisoners of the past concentration camps and ghettos about the real scale of the tragedy-the genocide of Jewry.

– Joint holding of Jewish holidays, events, designed to solve problems of communication, spiritual improvement and increase of knowledge in the field of world and Jewish civilization.

Legal assistance is also provided to the members of the organization, to resolve problems related to the confirmation of the status of prisoners, victims of fascism