''You cannot build your future unless you know your past,'' said Yiannis Boutaris, Mayor of the Greek city of Thessaloniki (Salonika), as he unveiled a commemorative plaque in his city where a Holocaust Museum will be built.
We find it wrong to limit Babyn Yar exclusively to the history of the Holocaust, ignoring other victims and other dramatic moments connected to the site.
A solemn ceremony was conducted in Kaliningrad, Russia last week, commemorating the thousands of Jewish victims of the Baltic “Death march” and its aftermath in 1945.
Last Friday Jewish communities across the FSU came together to commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, with memorial events taking place in almost every one of the Federation’s 100 larger communities. The region’s youth programs also actively participated in the commemorations.