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During World War II, the Nazis exterminated an estimated 6 million Jews. Innocent children and adults were shot en masse in Babi Yar on the northwestern outskirts of Kyiv.
After all, the largest number of Jews in Europe lived on the territory of Ukraine. Today, January 27, the whole world remembers the victims of Nazi terror on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
77 years ago Jews were released from Auschwitz
The Nazis of 1933-1945 persecuted and exterminated the Jewish people. People were shot, burned in crematoria or destroyed in the gas chambers of the camps.
Only on November 1, 2005, the UN General Assembly proclaimed a resolution recognizing January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
It was on this day – January 27, 1945 – the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberated the prisoners of the largest Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau near the Polish city of Oswiecim.
Ukraine was one of the six countries that initiated the adoption of the UN document, but only in 2012 officially joined the celebration of this international date at the state level.
What happened to the Jews during during the Second World War
They (Jews – Channel 24) were gathered to Lvovskaya Square and led. In Babi Yar outside the city, they were shot, – recalled 97-year-old from Kiev Galina Mikhailovna.
The woman said on the air of the telethon that several Jewish families lived in her house. The Nazis gathered them in September 1941 and did not say where they were taking them. They didn't return. There were many such stories.
Suspіlne told several stories of people who, as children, were able to survive the Holocaust.
Zakhar Tabachnik got into the Jewish ghetto in the city of Balta, Odessa region, at a young age . Then they had German and Romanian power. They moved the Jews to several separate streets.
From time to time, the German authorities gave instructions to the local Romanian authorities – so many Jews should be killed. Well, the Romanians followed the order, – the man recalled.
The Jews shot his mother, his grandmother died in the ghetto. The man himself was saved by a miracle.
“Two soldiers come in with machine guns at the ready, and in this room I am with my mother, my mother’s sister with twin children, and my grandfather was skin and bones, thin, thin. One of them says: “Let's give a turn?”. Aunt mine couldn’t stand it, she says in German: “Old people, sick people, little children.” And then the second soldier put his hand on the barrel, turned it, and they went out together. This aunt saved our lives,” said Zakhar Tabachnik.
< p>The story of the rescue of Zakhar Tabachnik, who was in the ghetto: watch the video
Help. “Holocaust” from ancient Greek translated as “burnt offering”. There is also the term Shoah, which in Hebrew means “catastrophe”. The Shoah is associated with the persecution of European Jews. It should be noted that approximately 2.2-2.5 million people were killed on the territory of the former Soviet Union.
Russia is destroying people who survived the Holocaust
The head of the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory Anton Drobovich recalled on the air of the telethon that in Soviet times this tragedy was hushed up, and since 1991 Ukraine has been trying to restore this memory. However, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia began to destroy in Ukraine even those people who managed to survive during World War II.
The Russians killed in this war (Russian-Ukrainian – Channel 24) several Holocaust survivors. For example, Wanda Obedkova from Mariupol, Boris Romanchenko, who survived Buchenwald, – said Drobovich.
He noted that these people survived the Holocaust and the Second World War, but did not survive the Russians. But they thought about their identity.
Anton Drobovich explained that:
- The USSR fought against the national identity of the Jews, as well as other peoples, and destroyed the memory of everything that strengthened it: “To build a “Soviet” person, who, apart from this “Soviet”, should not have had any more important identity”; < /li>
- Russian propaganda is now constantly turning to anti-Semitism and inappropriate analogies. Putin and Lavrov have been warned that they cannot draw analogies, but this does not stop them;
- Russia continues to resort to Nazi-like actions.
The Kremlin is repeating history – Ukrainians are experiencing genocide
The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny honored the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. He noted that Ukraine shares the pain of the Jewish people and all those who suffered from the Nazi terror during the Second World War.
The tragedy should have been a warning to Mankind. I should have, but I didn’t… Today, again, the genocide of Ukrainians is taking place in the very center of Europe,” Zaluzhny said.
He noted that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are the first army in the world, because they defend their own, fight for survival Ukrainian nation, freedom, memory and truth.
Zaluzhny honored their memory in memory of the victims of the Holocaust: watch the video
Pay attention ! Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that Ukraine honors the memory of millions of victims of the Holocaust: “We know and remember that indifference kills together with hatred. Indifference and hatred can always do evil together.” See the link for the full address of the President of Ukraine.
