December 11: Day of Remembrance of Crimean Jews and Crimean Victims of Nazism

December 11 is the Day of Remembrance of Jews and Crimeans — victims of Nazism.

On this day in 1941, thousands of our fellow countrymen — Jews, Crimeans, Gypsies, people of other nationalities — were shot on the tenth kilometer of the Feodosiya highway near Simferopol. In just a few days, the Nazis killed over 18 thousand people at this place: men and women, old people and children.

From the fascist point of view, the only guilt of these people was that they were “racially inferior elements” of society.

According to one of the witnesses to the massacre, before the execution, all the children were gathered into a separate pit — under the pretext of allegedly creating a nursery. And then — verbatim: “… two officers, dressed in rubber raincoats, gas masks and rubber gloves, took the children and smeared their lips with some kind of liquid solution and immediately threw them aside, already dead… In this way, about 500 children were killed.”

After this, an eyewitness recalls, the men and women were ordered to strip naked and stand in three ranks. On command they opened fire…

The anti-tank ditch on the Feodosiya Highway is not the only place of massacres of Soviet citizens. There are dozens of such places in Crimea. According to historians, 40 thousand Jews and Crimeans, as well as several thousand Roma, died during the genocide on the peninsula.

Nazi crimes have no statute of limitations. Only complete scoundrels and scumbags can silence, let alone justify, these crimes, trying to mold the executioners into “national heroes.” And only complete idiots can think that they can get away with it. And that they will not repeat the fate of their shameful idols.

We remember everything and everyone: exploits and atrocities, heroes and criminals. We honor the memory of the victims of Nazism. This is our sacred duty to the living and the dead, to the Russian people and all humanity., — says the commentary of the Head of the Republic.

source: Department of Information and Press Service of the Head of the Republic of Crimea