Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Reuven Azman advises Jews still staying in the Russia to leave as soon as possible
Chief Rabbi of Ukraine Moshe Reuven Azman heard about the atrocities in Bucha long before the liberation of the town. In the first days of the invasion, he was in the vicinity, in the Jewish town of Anatevka, built with the money of the Jewish community — the namesake of the fictional town from the works of Sholom Aleichem. I have been there more than once — this is a modern comfortable settlement, which became a home for many Jewish settlers from the east already in the first years of the war.
Anatevka is located not far from Bucha, and even before its liberation, there were rumors that the Russians were doing something monstrous in the occupied territories. Moshe Azman also heard about this, but no one could have imagined what was revealed after.
Among those tortured in Bucha was a Rabbi Azman’s synagogue goer — journalist Zoreslav Zamoisky. The Rabbi saw his body with signs of torture and a gunshot wound, so the Russians’ claims of “denazification”, as Moshe Azman said, “are not even funny anymore.” He is all the more perplexed when his fellow Jews in Russia keep on repeating propaganda slogans, not believing him — an eyewitness.
The Rabbi advises Jews still staying in the Russian Federation to leave as soon as possible. The Iron Curtain is already descending, and when it finally falls, it may be too late.
