Rally Requiem
The infamous word "pogrom" has entered the majority of European languages unchanged. Jewish pogroms were particularly widespread in the Russian Empire in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Then the deadly bacillus of anti-Semitism struck all corners of Ukraine, and pogroms spread throughout its territory. But he was particularly bloody and cruel 
February 15-16, 1919, in which about 1,600 people were martyred.
Armed gangs dealt with the peaceful Jewish population, far from politics, which for some reason represented both bourgeois and socialists, and the culprits of the destruction. A wild orgy of blood-drunk bandits lasted two days, and on February 18, the same thugs committed a massacre in the town of Felshtyn, killing almost 600 people. But it was done by those (the language does not turn to call them the word "people") who knew well the commandment "do not kill".
On February 15, representatives of the Jewish religious community, clergymen of various denominations, the public of the city, and employees of the Hesed Besht Foundation gathered for a requiem rally to honor the memory of the innocent victims. According to tradition, pebbles, lamps and flowers were placed at the monument and graves.
February 17 in the village Gvardiyske of the Khmelnytskyi district (the former town of Felshtyn) also held a prayer meeting near the memorial. More than a hundred residents (and this says a lot!) came to honor the memory of their old neighbors, who gave their lives for unknown reasons and to whom...
And on the evening of February 15, 16, and 17, townspeople and residents of the village Gvardiyske lit memorial candles in their homes in memory of the victims of all Jewish pogroms.
