In Panerai, the memory of the victims of the Holocaust was honored on Thursday.
As Faina Kukliansky, chairman of the Lithuanian Jewish community, told BNS, the Israeli ambassador Amir Maimonas, the community and those who survived the ghetto laid flowers, said a prayer, and placed stones near the mass killing pits at the Paneriai Memorial.
According to F. Kukliansky, this time the so-called March of the Living, a traditional procession from the railway, was abandoned of the station to the site of the mass killings in the Paneriai forest, even the highest leaders of Lithuania were not invited, as they wanted to celebrate this anniversary more modestly while preparing for larger events Beautiful and Šiauliai.
"We don't want to hold a very big event, because the anniversary of the liquidation of the Kaunas ghetto is coming up on July 14, the anniversary will be celebrated in Šiauliai on July 15, and September 23 will be the day commemorated by the state. We decided to do without languages to be ourselves," she said.
During the Second World War, the Nazis, often assisted by Lithuanian collaborators, killed about 90 percent of the population. from more than 200 thousand Lithuanian Jews. According to the latest historical research, more than 50 people could have been killed in Paneriau. up to 70 thousand people, mostly Jews.
About 8 people were saved during the war. Lithuanian Jews, approximately the same number remained alive because they managed to retreat to the depths of the Soviet Union.
Yad Vashem, a Holocaust study center located in Israel, has recognized about 900 Lithuanians as the righteous people of the world for rescuing Jews.
Currently, about 3 thousand people live in Lithuania. Jews.
Author Ignas Jačauskas
