Today, the Khmelnytskyi Charitable Foundation "Hesed Besht" marked World Holocaust Remembrance Day by honoring the victims at the Memorial on Silskohospodarska Street, where eight thousand two hundred of our brothers are buried. Meetings on the occasion of the sad date were also held at the Community Center "Thia".
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Seventy-one years ago, the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz death camp, 70 km from Krakow. The picture that opened to the soldiers behind the barbed wire confused even experienced and harsh soldiers: exhausted, frightened, thin and demoralized - that's exactly what the surviving prisoners of one of the largest camps in Poland were like. From that day on, the terrible truth about the crimes of the fascist regime became known to the whole world. In 2005, the UN General Assembly established January 27 as the World Holocaust Remembrance Day, and since 2013 it has been celebrated in Ukraine at the official level.
In the morning, students of the Khmelnytskyi College of Finance and Economics visited the Thiia Community Center on Kamianets-Podilskyi Street for a lecture on "The Holocaust in Podillia." The event was held at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, a unique facility that collects data on victims and participants, criminals and heroes who were affected by the events of 1941-1943. The main goal of "Lessons of the Holocaust" is to tell the younger generation about the crimes of their predecessors so that they will never be repeated in the future.
At noon, there was a large crowd near the Holocaust Memorial on Silskohospodarska Street. Representatives of the Jewish community, employees of the Hesed Besht Foundation, the Department of Culture, Nationalities, Religion and Culture of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, and various national associations came here. At the requiem rally, they recalled the tragic events and honored the dead with a minute of silence. Director of the Hesed Besht Foundation, Ihor Ratushny, emphasized that a resolute rebuff to fascism in any manifestation is the only possible way not to repeat the terrible events of past years. The rally attracted the attention of a large number of local media, which indicates the relevance of the topic and the awareness of the population.
People gathered here at the call of their hearts. One of them was a traveler from the United States of America. By chance, while in Khmelnytskyi, he learned about today's event and could not help but come to the rally with an interpreter.
In the afternoon, representatives of public organizations gathered at the Thiya Community Center. All of them expressed sincere sympathy for the Jewish people and almost everyone had a story related to the past and the persecution of Jews. This shows that Jewish history is closely intertwined with the history of local communities and in the past everyone lived together in peace and harmony.
Unfortunately, the epidemiological situation in the region did not allow for all planned events to be held. On January 28, the mobile exhibition "Holocaust and Memory" will be opened in the youth library, and after the "quarantine" is lifted, it will travel to remote areas of the Khmelnytskyi region as part of the Days of Remembrance of the Innocent Victims of the Catastrophe.
