The International Holocaust Remembrance Day was celebrated a week ago, but the Khmelnytskyi Charitable Foundation "Hesed Besht" did not limit itself to this day. To this day, events dedicated to passing on information about the terrible crimes of past generations to new generations are held here almost every day. On February 5, such an event was held at secondary school No. 6.
The director of Khmelnytskyi Secondary School No. 6, Andriy Mykolayovych Popyk, came to the community center "Thiya" in person. Twice before, he had managed to visit the traveling exhibition "Holocaust and Memory", created by the Hesed Besht Children's Charity Foundation for field trips on Holocaust lessons. Now the director came with a request to provide this exhibition for the students of his school.
The director of the Khmelnytskyi Charitable Foundation "Hesed Besht", the head of the Khmelnytskyi Jewish Community, Ihor Ratushny, responded to the request instantly. After all, it was for such purposes that it was created. And if at the beginning our organization asked to bring the exhibition to one or another educational institution or cultural center in the Khmelnytskyi region, now the institutions are contacting the Foundation on their own. In the week that has passed since the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the exhibition has visited three cities remote from the regional center, and more than two hundred pupils, students, librarians and teachers have viewed it. No matter how it sounds, the roller mechanisms responsible for folding the exhibition banners have already broken from frequent use on several stands. But even this news carries positive notes - people remember the tragedy of the past and want to know more about it. Moreover, the initiative now does not come from the Jewish population: people who have no relation to Judaism, who did not lose loved ones in the fires of concentration camps, empathize with our people, sharing the memory of the innocent victims of the Holocaust.
The exhibition will remain at School No. 6 until February 12. It will be open to students from a nearby university, and a delegation from Germany will arrive for the closing ceremony, which has established partnerships with the only school in the city with in-depth study of the German language.
