On January 21, 2017 a lecture about Yiddish writers who witnessed the Holocaust and their creations written during the Nazi regime, took place at Nikitskaya Jewish Community Center in Moscow.

The event, intended for about 20 "Yad Vashem" volunteers, is a result of cooperation of International Yiddish Center at the World Jewish Congress and the Moscow JCC. It involved interviewing and collecting memories and evidences of ghettos' and concentration camps' survivors. Since less and less witnesses of this disastrous period remain alive, such activity is so important to those who care for better future without antisemitism and cruel bloodshed.

The academical director of the WJC Yiddish Center, Dr. Mordechay Yushkovsky, gave a lecture on this point. The participants confessed that they faced such subject, as the Holocaust-era Yiddish literature, for the first time. They also expressed gratitude for the opportunity to learn more about Yiddish culture as a whole.