A veteran who saved Jews during the war died in Rostov-on-Don

RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the President of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC).

During World War II, Zirchenko saved 32 people from Jewish families from invaders.

The Righteous Among the Nations of the World is an honorary title conferred on non-Jews who saved Jews during the Second World War.

Last March, the Righteous Among the Nations of the World, Dutch teacher Johan van Hulst, who saved hundreds of Jewish children during World War II, died at the age of 107 years.