In memory of the victims of the Holocaust

In 2005, the UN General Assembly established January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. This day in 1945, the Red Army released about 7 thousand prisoners who remained alive in the Auschwitz death camp. In the concentration camp at the beginning of World War II, people were tested for gas poisoning, medical experiments were conducted on prisoners, and they were forced into slave labor.

Every year on January 27, Holocaust victims are remembered in Pridnestrovie. During World War II, during the occupation, 18 thousand Jews died in Dubossary, 1.3 thousand were killed in Rybnitsa, more than 500 in Kamenka. According to various sources, the number of deaths in Tiraspol is from 1.5 to 3 thousand people. To commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, residents of the capital gather at the monument to the innocently killed during the Nazi occupation of Tiraspol 1941-1944, established in 2018. It was at this place that civilians were shot.

The PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky, the first PMR President Igor Smirnov, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Tsurcan, deputy of the Supreme Council Grigory Dyachenko, representatives of public organizations, residents and guests of Tiraspol.

The President urged participants in the mourning rally, prisoners of fascism, to pass on the history of the events of 75 years ago to subsequent generations.

The memory of the victims of the Holocaust was honored with a minute of silence. Fresh flowers were laid at the monument to the innocent victims of the Nazi occupation.