In 1945, the Allied armies completed the much-needed pincer effect on the Nazi troops. Tens of thousands of Jews who were on the front lines—Soviets, Americans, English and many others—embraced for the first time before the dead and survivors of the Holocaust.

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin praised the Russians, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Latvians, Belarusians, Asians and others for their meritorious role in a patriotic war. The Jews were forgotten. The unfortunate ones who displayed their war medals in Kiev and Moscow heard a terrifying question they would never forget: “Where did you buy these medals?”

After the founding of the modern-day Jewish state in 1948, thousands of Jews, including soldiers and officers of the Red Army, moved there. From the USSR, which witnessed their departure, ser

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