Belarus’ National Library hosts Holocaust Remembrance Day exhibition

The National Library of Belarus launched an exhibition called "Holocaust: Without the Right to Oblivion" to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The exhibition will be running until 13 February, BelTA learned from the NBB website.

The exhibition includes more than 70 documents in Russian, German and English: books, periodicals, brochures, booklets. Among them are historical, documentary and memoir documents telling about the Holocaust as one of the most heinous crimes of the Nazis. The organizers believe that these materials show respect for the survivors and pay tribute to the victims' memory. They hope that studying this tragedy will encourage humanity to reject all forms of racism, violence, and anti-semitism. The exhibition will be of interest to historians, specialists in international law, world politics, international relations, and human rights, as well as undergraduate and graduate students and teachers. The UN General Assembly established International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 1 November 2005 (Resolution 60/7 Holocaust Remembrance) and observes it annually on 27 January, the date of the liberation of the largest Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, by Soviet troops in 1945. The day serves as a reminder to continue the fight against anti-semitism, racism, and other forms of intolerance that can result in targeted violence against entire groups of people. Belarus was a co-sponsor of the Holocaust Remembrance resolution. During the war, more than 800,000 Jews were killed on the territory of Belarus. The country holds annual events dedicated to the remembrance day. During the war, Belarus lost one third of its population and experienced all the horrors of the Holocaust. More than 250 death camps and places of mass extermination were set up on the territory of the country occupied by the Nazis. These included the Minsk ghetto and Trostinets, the largest Nazi death camp in Belarus, where civilians, prisoners of war and the Jewish population deported from Austria, Germany, Poland and other countries were killed.