The Jewish National Fund will plant a forest in memory of the 200,000 Jewish soldiers in the Red Army who fell in battle against the Nazis during World War II. About a half million Jewish soldiers served with the Red Army during the war. The decision to plant the forest in the mountains around Jerusalem was announced by a public committee consisting of the Association of War Veterans in the USSR, the World Organization of Partisans, Ghetto Fighters and Concentration Camp Survivors and the Organization of Invalids of the war against Nazism.
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