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On February 23, solemn events dedicated to the memory of the Chechen and Ingush Soviet deportation victims (1944), as well as the memory of the outstanding Crimean Tatar leader Noman Çelebicihan (1885-1918) were held at Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”. On February 23, 1944, the NKVD (the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs) troops of the USSR began the total deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples, during which, according to various estimates, from 500 to 650 thousand Chechens and Ingush were expelled from the territory of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR to Central Asia and Kazakhstan. Some of the people, mainly the elderly, women and children from the highlands, were killed on the spot.

 Another tragic page of our past is the assassination of the Crimean Tatar national revival leader, poet, spiritual leader Noman Çelebicihan. On the night of February 22-23, 1918, the first head of the Crimean People’s Republic government, one of the organizers of the Crimean Tatar Kurultai, the Mufti of Crimean, Belarusian, Lithuanian and Polish Muslims was shot by the Bolsheviks.

 It is symbolic that the events took place in Museum’s hall “Tragedies of the XX Century”, the main idea of which is “There is not anyone other's pain”. At the Ceremony Dr. Svitlana Kaiuk, associate professor, department of history of Ukraine, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University; Ramazan Kurbanov, head of the Muslim religious community of Dnipro; Arbi Tushaev, representative of the Chechen community of Dnipro; Kemal Mustafaev, head of NGO “Crimean Tatars community”, Dnipro; Elvin Kadyrov, coordinator of NGO “Crimean Tatars community”, Kyiv; Diliaver Abdullaev, representative of NGO “Crimean Tatars community”, Dnipro; Olha Vasylieva, chief specialist of the department of culture, nationalities and religions of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration; Yurii Bereza, Ukrainian military officer, commander of the Dnipro-1 regiment; Borys Treigerman, former adviser to the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, volunteer; Dr. Oleh Repan, associate professor, department of history of Ukraine, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, director of the Institute of Dnipro history, military officer, volunteer; Anatolii Balakhnin, chairman of the Supervisory Board of the center of the Ukrainian ethnic community “Dnipro Sich” made a speech on the importance of preserving the memory of these events. Iryna Radchenko, deputy head of “Tkuma” Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies and Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine” scientific department moderated the event. A demonstration of documentary videos on the Chechens and Ingush deportation, as well as on the figure of Noman Çelebicihan - extremely emotional tapes supplemented by the prayer of Muhammad, the imam of the Dnipro Muslim religious community, which again reminded those present about the value of human life, took place during the Ceremony.

 Thanks to everyone who joined our events. 

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