Tens of candles for Holocaust victims

Tens of candles were lit Tuesday, January 27, at the Jewish Cultural Center KEDEM in Chisinau, in the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. “The entire Jewish nation must remember the tragedy and accuse those who deny the existence of the Holocaust,” Stav Nezhinsky, the first secretary of the Israeli Embassy to Ukraine and Moldova, said. The diplomat also said that “though those years are in the past, the young generation must overtake the relay of the memory.” Mikki Katzif, the director of the branch of the American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in Moldova, the organizer of the event, emphasized that “it is regrettable that less and less witnesses of the Holocaust remain alive and the young people will learn about these events only from films and books.” Eye witness of the Holocaust Shabs Roif, the president of the Association of the former detainees in concentration camps and ghettos, confessed that “there is not a special remembrance day for detainees.” “We cannot forget that suffering, we painfully realize that out of those 6 million dead Jews, about 300 thousand were from Basarabia,” Shabs Roif stated for Info-Prim-Neo. An exhibition of paintings and graphics was varnished at the event. The works were signed by painters from Moldova and the SUA. Painter Eduard Haidinberg, a member of the Painters’ Union from Moldova, said that “the displayed works are from different creation periods of artists who rendered the tragedy.” The participants in the event could listen to a concert performed by the National Philharmonic Orchestra, with the participation of tenor Mihai Munteanu. The UN General Assembly declared January 27 as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Actions of commemorating those 6 million of Jews and other nationalities, who lost their lives in concentration camps and ghettos are held in the whole world.