A monument to the victims of the Holocaust was unveiled on the Monuments Alley on Vasile Lupu St in Orhei town, IPN reports, quoting a press release.

Attending the event, Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilița condemned the atrocities of the past and the sufferings to which innocent people were subjected. “World War II brought so much hardship and destruction that many considered it would be the last for mankind. Regrettably, not everyone learned the lessons of that war. The Jewish and Roma monitories were among those that suffered the most as the Nazis implemented the odious final solution that reached our localities as well. Thousands of Jews and Romanies were taken out of their homes, shot or condemned to death by the inhuman marches to concentration camps,” stated the official.

According to Premier Gavrilița, the black pages of our history should be hidden under the silence rug. “We must talk to each other about the good and bad periods. We must pass on the lessons of history to the young generations for that violent impulse that is regrettably inside many of us to be neutralized with the power of reason, good and wisdom. The public monuments play a special role in educating new generations, in establishing inspiring symbols that define the whole society,” said Natalia Gavrilița.

About 4,000 Jews from Orhei district became victims of the genocide of 1941-1945.