Tiraspol honored the Holocaust victims memory

Prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oswiecim) concentration camp, one of the largest Nazi "death factories" were liberated 80 years ago, on January 27, 1945 by the Red Army. Tens of millions of people totally passed through their millstones – Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, Soviet prisoners of war and others. All those whom the Nazis and their allies considered inferior.

The exact number of those killed in concentration camps remains unknown to this day. According to various estimates, between 1.5 and 4 million people died in Auschwitz. The total number of death camp victims is approximately 10 times greater. Most of them – over 6 million – were Jews. Therefore, the term "Holocaust" is used specifically in relation to the genocide of the Jewish people.

The Holocaust was not just a tragedy for the Jewish people, but also one of the darkest spots in human history. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005.

The whole system of camps and ghettos was opened on the territory of today's Pridnestrovie, which was occupied by Romanian troops during the Great Patriotic War. Jews from Romania, Bessarabia and other territories. Local residents were also victims, exiled to the Territory between the Dniester and the Southern Bug, and then shot. Thus, the Jewish population of the city was first driven into the courtyard of a summer cinema, and then taken to the Dniester and shot after the occupation of Tiraspol in August 1941. In the city of Dubossary, 18 thousand Soviet Jews were shot in the summer and autumn of 1941, and by the end of the occupation, the number of dead exceeded 21 thousand people. Mass executions took place in Bendery, Rybnitsa and Dubossary. According to some sources, about 12 thousand Jews lived in Bender before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, in 1942 only a few people survived. Two people in 1943. A monument to the victims of the Holocaust was opened in 2018 in Tiraspol,  at the site where mass executions took place during the Romanian occupation. Today, a traditional requiem rally was held here. The mourning events were attended by the deputy of the Supreme Council of the PMR, deputy chairman of the Committee on Legislation, Protection of Rights and Freedoms of Citizens Gregory Dyachenko together with representatives of state authorities, leaders and representatives of Jewish public organizations of Pridnestrovie and Moldova, as well as concerned residents and guests of the capital. The memory of the victims of the Holocaust was honored with a minute of silence.

Yuri Kreichman noted that almost 90 people victims of Nazism live in Pridnestrovie today. However, due to the banking blockade of Moldova, about 30 of them cannot receive the compensation due to them from the German Government. The problem has not been solved for more than 1.5 years.

Today, there is a museum, which is also a memorial at the place of the former Auschwitz camp. This is a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust. It is visited every year by more than a million people from all over the world.

Deputy Gregory Dyachenko noted that we still face a lack of respect for each other today, unfortunately. Pridnestrovie is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe due to the energy crisis. Pridnestrovians continue to freeze in their homes.

Mourning events dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust victims were held today in other cities of the republic.