January 27 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Today is the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust. It was decided not to hold a traditional meeting-requiem due to the prevailing epidemiological situation on the territory of Pridnestrovie. 

Flowers at the monument to the victims of the Holocaust on the 76th anniversary of the liberation of the prisoners of the Nazi camp Auschwitz were laid by the leadership of the republic, deputies and members of the Government. Those who died in Nazi concentration camps are remembered on the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, regardless of their nationality and religious.

Soviet troops in 1945 liberated the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. 60 years later the UN General Assembly established a Holocaust Remembrance Day (November 1, 2005). Auschwitz, the most numerous of the Nazi camps, became the symbol of the Holocaust. From 1.5 to 4 million people died during its existence (1940-1945), according to some estimates.

The Holocaust also affected the territory of Pridnestrovie. According to various estimates, about 40 thousand people of Jewish nationality were killed in cities and regions, and in total in the so-called "Transdniestria" - more than 300 thousand Jews, it was under this occupation term that mass executions and murders of people were carried out.