Lithuanian Jewish Community chairwoman Faina Kukliansky attended a ceremony sponsored by the state of Lithuania to celebrate VE Day at the Holocaust mass murder site Ponar Monday. VE or Victory in Europe Day marks the date the three main allies in the anti-Nazi coalition, the United States, United Kingdom and Soviet Union, achieved victory against Nazi Germany. It is marked on March 8 in the West and March 9 in Russia and most other former republics of the USSR. At Ponar a Lithuanian honor guard laid wreathes in the name of the president. The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry sent invitations to the event to foreign embassies. The Lithuanian state held similar ceremonies at other grave sites as well.