On April 11, flowers were laid at the foot of the memorial "Gates of Memory" in Trostenets, and a moment of silence was held in memory of those whose lives were cut short by the hands of fascist punishers. "Trostenets is one of Europe's largest concentration camps. Over the years of the camp's existence, Hitler's "death conveyor" took the lives of over 206,500 people: civilians, prisoners of war from the entire USSR and Jews - citizens of Poland, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. They were brutally tortured, shot and burned. The prisoners of the concentration camps also remember with horror what happened. And, observing the situation in the world, they say, "Europe has forgotten who liberated them from fascism."
Vikenty Klimenkov, former minor prisoner:
"Young people should be told not to admire Ukrainian nationalists. It makes me angry. They forgot what war is and what fascism is. You know Stepan Bandera and the Galicia regiment, which obeyed the Germans and fought on the side of the Nazis. "
During the Great Patriotic War there were more than 250 places of mass detention and extermination in Belarus. Today, on International Day for the Liberation of Prisoners of Fascist Concentration Camps, our task is to remember those tragic moments in history and not to let them happen.
