An event to commemorate Holocaust victims...

The ghetto in Kaluga, 190 km (120 miles) from Moscow, was the first Holocaust site in Europe liberated by Soviet troops. It was freed in December 1941 about two months after it was created by the Nazi occupiers.

For the Russian Jewish Congress, which is organizing the event, International Holocaust Remembrance Day and Victory Day "remind of the tragedy and heroism, of the importance of historical memory, the danger of nationalistic ideology and the need to counter attempts to distort history," Congress spokesman Mikhail Savin said.

He said the event will attract federal and regional officials, foreign diplomats, religious and public figures, and members of the cultural community.

"Soviet troops also liberated those who survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp on January 27, 1945," Savin said, echoing Russian leaders" concerns about recent attempts, especially by some former Soviet states, to "rewrite history," diminishing the Soviet Union"s role in World War

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