January 27th is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was on this day in 1945 that the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated - a place of imprisonment, human experimentation and execution of Jews, Poles, Gypsies and other victims. It is officially recognized that up to 6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust. As is known, immediately after the occupation of Ukraine, the Nazis deployed a wide network of ghettos (the largest was Lviv), and later began mass shootings of the Jewish population. One of the largest and most famous was the shootings in Babyn Yar in Kyiv, but the destruction of the Jews of Ukraine was systematic and widespread. In the Holocaust, Ukraine lost 1.5 million Jews, who were destroyed right on its territory, in pits and ravines on the outskirts of cities and villages. According to researchers, there are up to 2,000 “smaller ravines” in Ukraine, places where the Nazis killed Jews. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day should remind all tyrants and aggressors of today’s world of the danger and consequences of their actions. And sooner or later, everyone will be punished for their inhumane actions. On this day, the Day of Mourning and Remembrance, we join the general sorrow and seek to sympathize with all this pain and loss, the name of which is the Holocaust.
