Representatives of the authorities, the public, and the clergy unite in a joint prayer at the Lviv Ghetto Memorial
January 27 – We honor the memory of the innocent victims of the Holocaust.
It was on January 27, 1945, that the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberated the prisoners of Hitler’s largest death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, near Auschwitz, Poland.
The day before, on January 26, representatives of the authorities, the public, and the clergy united in a joint prayer at the Lviv Ghetto Victims Memorial. They honored the memory of the victims of Nazism and the Holocaust.
According to the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, 6 million Jews became victims of Nazi policy during World War II. Of these, 1.5 million were from the territory of modern Ukraine.
Eternal memory to the innocent victims of the Holocaust.