World Jewish News

A Holocaust memorial was opened in what was once a Jewish ghetto in Navahrudak, Hrodna region, on July 24.

As many as 250 prisoners escaped from the ghetto through a tunnel they dug in September 1943.
The memorial carries the names and photographs of the Jews who failed to escape from the ghetto and were executed by Nazi troops, as well as the names of those who managed to broke out and joined guerillas outside the town.
Workers reconstructed the rooms where the ghetto prisoners were kept and unearthed the entrance to the tunnel, which all are now part of the memorial.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Inna Herasimava, director of the Museum of Belarusian Jews' History and Culture, emphasized the importance of the memorial, which she said proves that Jews offered resistance to the Nazis rather than accepted their fate with humility.
"We must unite in order not to let the dark pages of our history repeat," Alyaksandr Zhuk, deputy education minister, said at the ceremony. He expressed hope that the memorial would become a Holocaust studies center.
The ceremony was attended by relatives of the Jews who managed to escape from the ghetto.

Источник: naviny.by