For ten years, the Republic of Moldova has commemorated the International and National Day of Remembrance for Holocaust Victims. In the summer of 1941, there were 49 concentration camps and ghettos between the Prut and Dniester rivers, and 189 in the Transnistrian region. On the occasion of the remembrance day, the National Archives Agency published a series of documents revealing the tragic fate of the Jews, IPN reports.

The largest camps in Moldova were located in the villages of Vertuljeni, with approximately 23,000 people, Secureni with 20,000, Edineț with 13,000, as well as in Chișinău. The camp in the capital was located not far from the current headquarters of the National Bank of Moldova.

Due to the crimes of the Nazi regime, not only Jews, but also Roma people, suffered.

January 27 marks the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps and the end of the Holocaust, during which millions of Jews were killed by the Nazi regime during World War II. The date was chosen in connection with the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland on January 27, 1945. To this day, the exact number of Jews and Roma murdered in the Holocaust remains unknown. The most commonly cited figure by historians is over six million people, including 1.5 million children.

"It is important to know the history, so that no one will ever suffer from racism and xenophobia again," stated the national authorities.