INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST
REMEMBRANCE DAY IN DNIPROPETROVSK
On
January, 27th Tkuma Center has conducted commemoration ceremony by
the Holocaust Victims’ Memorial at Gagarin Park. Heads and activists of Dnepropetrovsk
Jewish Community, journalists of Jewish and Ukrainian mass media and
representatives of the public were invited to take part in the ceremony.
In spite of cold weather which prevented veterans from
participating in the ceremony about 40 persons have gathered to commemorate the
memory of Holocaust victims. To the participants have spoken Amir Ben
Zvi, JDC Representative in Dnepropetrovsk, Mark Shlyak, Chairman of
Tkuma All-Ukrainian Center for Holocaust Studies Advisory Committee, Elena
Karol, Israeli Cultural Center Director, O. Tovkach, Hillel
Director in Dnepropetrovsk and S. Flaks, Head of Board of Jewish
Veterans of War in Dnepropetrovsk. G. Korol, Head of Jewish
Religious Community, has read the commemoration prayer. The commemoration
ceremony has been widely covered in mass media.
On January, 27th students has met with
Holocaust survivors.
On January 23rd-28th Tkuma museum
educational mobile exhibition “Rescue for the Sake of Justice” has been
organized in Dnepropetrovsk Jewish School #144.
