Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the unveiling ceremony for a new memorial dedicated to the heroes of the resistance movement in concentration camps and ghettos during WWII. The memorial is housed in the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow.

Museum officials, Russia’s chief rabbi, and the president of the Federation of Jewish Communities took part in the June 4 event. Also present was Aron Bielski, the youngest of the four Bielski brothers — Jewish partisans who helped rescue Jews from extermination by the Nazis.

Both Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participated in laying the monument’s foundation stone on International Holocaust Day a year ago. [Pictured, from left, Museum trustee board chair Viktor Vekselberg, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Russia’s chief rabbi Berel Lazar. Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center photo.]