CrimeaPRESS reports:
On the Day of Remembrance of Crimeans and Jews who became victims of mass executions by the Nazis in 1941-1943, a mourning event dedicated to the 82nd anniversary of this mournful date was held at the 10th kilometer of the Simferopol-Feodosia highway.
Deputy Head of the Committee on Public Diplomacy and Interethnic Relations Ivan Shonus, representatives of Crimean national communities, clergy of various confessions and the public came to lay flowers at the obelisk and honor the memory of the innocent victims.
As Ivan Schonus noted, the Crimean Holocaust is a symbol of inhuman cruelty, an unhealed wound and a common tragedy.
Our sacred duty is to preserve the memory of those brutally murdered, pass it on to the younger generation, suppress any attempts to revive the ideology of misanthropy and Nazism, maintain peace and tranquility in our native landhe said, speaking at the rally.
Addressing the participants of the mourning meeting, the Chairman of the State Committee for Interethnic Relations of the Republic of Crimea, Aider Tippa, noted that the crimes committed by the Nazis against entire nations will never be forgotten.
Such tragedies are a lesson for us, and it is our duty to do everything possible to prevent them from happening again. On these memorable days for us, I once again want to express words of sincere sympathy for the severe trials and irreparable losses that befell the peoples.— emphasized the chairman of the State Committee for Nationalities of Crimea.
Participants in the mourning event laid flowers at the memorials, honoring the memory of the innocent victims with a minute of silence.
From December 11 to December 13, 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, the most massive extermination of the inhabitants of the peninsula on a national basis occurred. On the 10th kilometer of the Simferopol-Feodosia highway in an anti-tank ditch, from December 6 to December 17, 1941, about 18 thousand innocent people were shot simply because they were ethnic Crimeans and Jews, Crimean Gypsies and Muslims by religion .
Photo: press service of the State Council of the Republic of Crimea, State Committee for Nationalities of the Republic of Crimea and the Jewish religious community of Simferopol.
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