#JCulture To the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the project provides for the dissemination of information about the Jewish community
To the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the project «Research and preservation of Jewish cultural heritage in the border area» provides the spreading of information about the Jewish community, their history and traditions. Therefore, we cannot ignore the horrible tragedy of the Holocaust, which left a great sad mark on our city. On January 27, the world commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Ukraine has been commemorating the victims of the tragedy at the state level honors since 2012. On November 1, 2005, UN General Assembly adopted a Resolution No. 60/7 which states that "The Holocaust, which led to the extermination of one-third of Jews and countless amount of representatives of other nations, will always be a warning to all people about the danger in which hide hate, fanaticism, racism and prejudice…". This document declared January 27 as Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On that day in 1945, the troops of the first Ukrainian front entered in Nazi death camp Auschwitz. This camp has become a symbol of Nazism's crimes in the modern world. Our region also became the place of this horrible crime. Halychyna District with its special status as Third Reich territory was a part of the eastern territory incorporated into the Reich. As convinced by Nazis, they were to be, first of all, cleansed of Jews. Cleaned: out of about 150,000 Jews of Prykarpattia (as of June 22, 1941) after the liberation of the region from the Nazis in the fall of 1944, about 150 people came out from hidings… 150 out of 150,000… According to historical scientists, about 60,000 Jews passed through Stanislaviv. Among the dead: about 30,000 were members of city's Jewish community, more than 20,000 were Jews from the Stanislaviv district, and around 3.5 thousand were refugees (from Hungary, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and others). In the scale of victims, Stanislaviv has a place in the sad line of world-known places of mourn. Around 12-12.5 thousand Jews were taken to the "death camps": Belzhets (10 thousand), Majdanek (1.5-2 thousand), and Janivskyi camp in Lviv (500 people).
The main part – about 48 thousand – died in Stanislav and its surroundings. The terrifying policy of terror against Jews in occupied Ukraine destroyed them as a socially cultural and ethnoreligious community. More than 1.5 million people became the victims of the Holocaust. The Holocaust is one of the most terrifying tragedies and is one of the biggest crimes in human history, and will be always a warning to all about the danger, in which hide hate, fanaticism, racism and prejudice.
The project "Research and preservation of Jewish cultural heritage in the border area" (JCulture) is implemented within the framework of the Cross-border Cooperation Programme of the EIS Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine 2014-2020, financed by the European Union.