Alexander Shcherba, "The Holocaust is an unhealed wound of our hearts"

Public organization "Hesed", PGU with the support of the Supreme Council held in Tiraspol an international round table "Holocaust in the historical memory of Pridnestrovie". Among the participants there are parliament speaker Alexander Shcherba, parliamentarian Grigory Dyachenko, representatives of the government, scientific community, members of national diasporas. It is not by chance that the round table is held precisely these days. 73 years ago, Soviet troops liberated one of the most terrible concentration camps of the Third Reich Auschwitz. According to various sources, from one and a half to two million prisoners, most of the Jewish nationality were killed in it. This day the UN General Assembly recognized as an international day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Researchers say that during the Second World War, a third of European Jews were killed - more than 6 million people. More than 18,000 people of Jewish nationality were killed only in Dubossary, in Pridnestrovie more than 40,000 Jews became victims of the Nazi genocide, both German and Romanian.

A documentary film, filmed by the creative group of the First Pridnestrovian television channel, was also presented about the tragedy of the Jewish people. The Chairman of the Supreme Council Alexander Shcherba appealed to the demonstrated video frames in his speech.

Recalling the famous expression "a little lie gives birth to great lawlessness," Alexander Shcherba expressed opinion that fascism always begins with a false message about the glorification of one nation over others.

According to the speaker, Pridnestrovians in the 1992 again faced with frantic nationalism, to resist it. Then the attempt to humiliate some at the expense of the national superiority of others ended in failure. But at the cost of this were 807 ruined lives of Pridnestrovians, who could rejoice at each new day.

Advisor to the Russian Ambassador to Moldova Yuri Uvarov, speaking to the participants of the round table discussion, spoke about common memory. He also noted the inadmissibility of conducting an audit of historical facts, their misinterpretation, stating: "A society that does not remember the past has no future". Yuri Uvarov also supposes that in connection with the Holocaust, we need to talk more about those people who risked their lives, the lives of their children, still saved the Jews, prisoners of the ghetto from the inevitable extermination by the fascists. These are the real righteous of the world.

Parliamentary Gregory Dyachenko noted the appearance of another memorable place today in Tiraspol, the central street.

He informed the participants of the round table that the day before the commemorative events took place in the schools of the city, and in the cinema - a demonstration of a documentary about the Holocaust that was visited by 150 schoolchildren.

This thought has also become a red thread that permeates the text of the resolution adopted at the end of the round table "Holocaust in the historical memory of Pridnestrovie".