The memory of the Holocaust victims will be honored in Uzhgorod (Announcement)

On January 27, 2017, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, there will be a lesson of memory at the museum exhibition "Transcarpathia during the Second World War."

The exhibition "Transcarpathia during the Second World War," the section "Holocaust of the Jews in Transcarpathia" features more than 20 original exhibits and photographs, including work clothes and headgear of a concentration camp prisoner, violin of Richard Urbanik, political prisoner of Soviet camps in Siberia (1941-1951), six-pointed yellow star and others.

In the spring of 1944, a real genocide against the Jewish people started. According to the account, conducted in 1944-1945 by the Extraordinary Commission, there were 112,500 Jews in the region. 104,000 people were killed in the concentration camps Dachau, Auschwitz and others. After the war, about 7 thousand people returned home.

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