Friends!

Friends! Yesterday was held a private screening of the film "Another’s prayer" directed by Akhtem Seyitablayev. I want to thank everyone who watched this incredibly touching film with us.

I felt empathy, sadness and pain of each of the viewers after watching strong this film. And yet - an incredible honor to those who made such an important and emotional film. The hall erupted with applause as soon as the titles appeared and continued clapping throughout the final movie soundtrack that complemented and completed the film – song "1944" by Jamala.

"Another’s prayer" is very important for all of us. It narrated the story of simple Tartar woman who saved Jewish children at the time of the German occupation of the Crimea. Her feat was one of the powerful forces that resisted the global evil, such people were later named Righteous among the Nations. In Ukraine, there were 2.5 thousand of them. They came on the terrible risk, they risked their lives, the lives of their children and relatives and opposed to the mad dictator who for some reason decided that the whole nation should disappear from the earth. But it did not happen.

"Who saves a man, saves the world." Once I was at the ceremony in which the award Righteous Among the Nations was given to a couple, that saved a little boy-Jew. Unfortunately, husband and wife did not live up to that point and their daughter came to get the reward. From Israel came 20 relatives of these boy. I will always remember their emotions - tears, full of pain and happiness at the same time.

I would like each of you to watch the movie "Another’s prayer". This is a multifaceted film, which has many parallels, combines two terrible tragedies on the history of Ukraine. There are many planes for reflection. And most importantly, all of you can imagine this story, think how would you have done. And most importantly - the movie should be watched by the young people who have not seen these horrors. So, they can feel the terrible atmosphere and conclude that such appalling events must never happen again in the future. Such terrible things, events, words like deportation, genocide, the Holocaust, the Holodomor, have to left only at the pages of history books.