In the Khmelnitsky region in Kamenetz-Podolsk a monument to Holocaust victims who died during the Second World War

The monument was erected on the initiative and with the support of the Hungarian government in the place where in August 1941 were executed 23 thousand 600 persons of Jewish nationality. Honor the innocent victims came head oblderzhadministratsiyi Mikhail Zagorodny, deputy state secretary of the Administration of the Prime Minister of Hungary, Dr. Csaba Latortsai, Director of the Khmelnytsky Regional Charitable Foundation "Hesed-Besht" Igor Ratushny, Deputy Kamenetz-Podolsk Mayor Dmitry Vasylyanov, and heads of Jewish and historical institutions , chairman of the organitions Hungary, representatives of the Embassy of Hungary, representatives of the Consulate of Hungary in m. Uzhgorod, the Jewish community, religious organizations, city and region, the public. A minute of silence honored the memory of murdered there, tortured, killed civilians. In his speech, chairman of RSA, in particular, noted that vsepohlynayuchyy fire destroyed the Holocaust in our region yevreyiv- 214,000 citizens of Ukraine and deported from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. He said: "It is unacceptable that families had to endure the atrocities that were committed during the Holocaust. Only joint efforts can prevent genocide and to end impunity. " It should be emphasized thathistory of the Jewish people from ancient times linked with skirts. Although the XX century was perhaps the most merciless to the Jews in Ukraine, no war, no violent pogroms nor migration could not break the centuries-old ties of Ukrainian and Jewish peoples. The most tragic page in the history of the Jews skirts became World War II. Kam'yaneckoy Commission to Investigate Nazi invaders found seven places of mass burial of Jews, including one grave with the bodies of five hundred children. Destroying people in Kamenka performed in the following order: first shot Jews who were brought from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, followed by local supporters continue radyanskoyi government and party institutions, and continuously prisoners from the local camp. Reported at

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