The remains of a Jewish soldier exhumed from a common grave in Estonia were reburied in Jerusalem. The body of Lenina Varshavskaya, a Jewish nurse in the Red Army interred alongside a monument to the soldiers who liberated the city from the Nazis, was reburied Wednesday according to Jewish custom at the Mount of Olives by one of Russia’s chief rabbis, Berel Lazar. Numerous dignitaries attended the ceremony, as did Varshavskaya’s cousin, Vladimir Parnas. “Vladimir Parnas wanted for Lenina Varshavskaya to be buried in the Holy Land,” said Baruch Gorin, a spokesman for the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia. “That is why we did everything possible to fulfill the wish of the relative of the deceased.”
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