The 27th of January has been celebrated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day since 2006. The corresponding decision was made by the UN General Assembly in November 2005. The date was not chosen by chance: Soviet troops liberated the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on this day in 1945. Pridnestrovians traditionally joined commemorative events, but the date was fixed in the official calendar only in 2017: by decree of the PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky, corresponding addition was made to the law “On the Establishment of Professional Holidays and Commemorative Days in the PMR”. Thre is the inscription on the marble slab topped with a six-pointed star: a monument was opened in Tiraspol in 2018 to those innocently killed during the Nazi occupation of the city of Tiraspol in 1941-1945. Commemorative events are held here every year. We remember those who died at the hands of the Nazis today. According to various estimates, from one and a half to three thousand persons of Jewish nationality were killed in Tiraspol. The Jews living in the city were shot in September 1941 en masse in the area of the Sukleya quarry. 1300 people died in Rybnitsa, about five hundred in Kamenka, 18 thousand people were killed in Dubossary because of their nationality. The lives of 40000 Jews were inhumanly cut short on the Pridnestrovian land during the years of Nazi madness in total. The memory of all victims of the Holocaust was honored with a minute of silence.
Flowers on behalf of the entire Pridnestrovian people, who honor the past, no matter how terrible its events, were laid at the monument by the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Vadim Krasnoselsky.
The ceremony was attended by the heads of state authorities and administration of the republic, members of public organizations. The largest representation is the "Hesed" Jewish community charitable and cultural center.
Funeral events are held today throughout Pridnestrovie. Flowers are laid at memorials and pedestals built in different cities in memory of the Holocaust victims.
