Published: 19 May 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
HALF A YEAR AGO, a monument to the Jewish hero of Azerbaijan was unveiled in the capital of multicultural and tolerant Azerbaijan. The day was a particularly special day for the country’s Jewish community and for Jews worldwide who know the story of decorated war hero Albert Agarunov.
On that day in Baku, an enormous statue of Agarunov was unveiled with military honors before a crowd of government and community leaders and the broader community and foreign guests who had come to celebrate one of the greatest Azerbaijani-Jewish heroes.
Some travelled from afar to attend the ceremony, including Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre; Commissioner for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom and President of Congress of Christian Leaders Rev. Johnnie Moore; Rabbi Shlomo Amar, former chief Sephardi rabbi; and several other rabbis from Europe, the US and Latin America, as well as state senators from the western US.
FULL STORY Remembering Albert Agarunov, the Jewish hero of Azerbaijan (Jerusalem Post)
Photo: A picture of text written about Albert Agarunov in Qırmızı Qəsəbə (Aykhan Zayedzadeh/Wikimedia Commons)
