Memory of the Holocaust victims

The victims of the Holocaust are remembered all over the world today. The 27th of January is recognized as the World Day of Remembrance, it was on this day in 1945 that the Red Army liberated the prisoners of one of the largest fascist concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau, known as Auschwitz. The opening of a memorial at the Jewish cemetery, which is over a hundred years old, was timed to coincide with this date in Bendery.

There are about 200 names on granite slabs of those who died in the Great Patriotic War on the fronts and were shot by Nazi SS troops during the occupation. The memorial itself is a whole wall that tells about the fate of the Jews in the 40s of the last century. This is the fourth such monument in Bendery. It is known that about six million Jews died in Europe and the Soviet Union in the 1930s and 1940s including those who lived on the territory of modern Pridnestrovie.

Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Alexander Korshunov was among those present at the opening of the new memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.

Representatives of the Jewish communities from Moldova, Russia and Belarus arrived in Bendery today to pay tribute to the memory of those who died. Chief Rabbi of the Union of Religious Jewish Communities of the Republic of Belarus Mordechai Reihinstein is visiting Pridnestrovie for the second time.

Mordechai Reihinstein calls the Holocaust an indicator of what a person can turn into and to what baseness and meanness to reach in his hatred.

People's Artist of the Russian Federation Alexander Rosenbaum was among the guests of the republic on this memorable day. It turns out that his great-grandmother is from Pridnestrovie. He said that at this cemetery in Bendery he would definitely look for his relatives and was almost sure that he would find them.

One of the places of execution in Bendery was a moat near the fortress. It is called Bendery Babi Yar. Approximately 700 Jews were shot there during the occupation. Today, a memorial plaque was also opened there in memory of one of the first "Jewish" executions in 1941: 58 people, including 8 children. The names of 11 victims have been identified. Deputy of the Supreme Council for the Bendery constituency No. 4 "Leninsky" Anton Onufrienko was among those who laid flowers at the memorial plaque, which is now installed in one of the moats of the Bendery fortress. He noted that Bendery has always been a city of many nationalities. 12 thousand Jews lived here before the war, only two Jews were left alive in the city by 1943. The execution, the death of entire families in concentration camps is a pain for the whole city.

Photo from the site of the PMR President