April 11 - International Day for the Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps
This date was not set by chance: it was on April 11, 1945, that the international uprising of prisoners of the largest death camp Buchenwald, founded in 1937, took place. During the years of World War II, more than 20 million people from 30 countries of the world passed through concentration camps. The first death camp began operating in 1933 in Dachau, in the following years the Nazis created a huge network of camps in which millions of people were systematically, systematically and systematically exterminated. In total, more than 14 thousand concentration camps, ghettos and prisons operated in Germany and the countries it occupied.
Horrible death factories also operated in our region. Today, a rally-requiem in memory of the innocently tortured was held at the site of the former concentration camp in the Rakove microdistrict of the regional center. It has become a tradition to gather at the burial site of more than 65 thousand prisoners of this concentration camp of 35 nationalities every year. Clients and employees of the Khmelnytskyi Charitable Foundation "Hesed Besht" also honor the memory of the mercilessly murdered and bow their heads low in grief, praying for the repose of the souls of the deceased.
Oleksiy Nakonechny, a serviceman of the military unit on the territory of which the former concentration camp is located, gave a tour of the museum for the delegation of the Hesed Besht Children's Charity Foundation, one of whose rooms contains a large number of materials and documents about the activities of the concentration camp. Only in such places do you fully feel the horror that our fathers and grandfathers had to endure. Only in such places do you sincerely pray to the Almighty so that something like this never has a chance to happen again...
