Auschwitz is hell on earth.
On January 28, 2020, an educational event dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day "Auschwitz – Hell on Earth" was held in the reading room of the college library. The event was attended by first-year students.
Holocaust victims are commemorated around the world on January 27. On this day in 1945, Soviet troops liberated the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, near the Polish city of Auschwitz.
The introductory speech was made by the Deputy Director for Educational Work Petro Leonidovych Beneskul.
The event began with a moment of silence, the audience honored the memory of all those killed during World War II.
Teacher YM Korzh told the students that in 1933-1945 about 5,000 Nazi concentration camps were set up in Germany and in occupied Europe. Death camps were set up in Poland, which were not designed to accommodate a large number of people at all – only to quickly destroy newcomers. The sites for the construction of the first of them (Chelmno and Belzec) were chosen in October 1941. The largest death camp was the Auschwitz concentration camp; By the spring of 1943, there were four gas chambers using Cyclone B. By November 1944, more than a million Jews had died, as well as tens of thousands of Gypsies, Poles, and Soviet prisoners of war. In all, an estimated 1.5 to 2.2 million people died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp during its existence, 90 percent of whom were Jews. In all, six million Jews and millions of people of other nationalities were exterminated in the Nazi death camps.
The educational event was accompanied by videos about the release of prisoners from the Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz), and about the life story of Ukrainian Anna Danilova, who was sent to the concentration camp at the age of three.
NS Demchenko-Yasynetska, based on historical materials, acquainted students with the liberators of concentration camp prisoners from Ukraine.
The head of the methodical office, Methodist MN Besarab, informed the audience about the painstaking research work that has been carried out, and is currently underway, with teachers and library staff on the Holocaust in Uman district.
The purpose of the educational event is to explain the essence of the Holocaust to students, to show young people the inhuman face of fascism and its tragic consequences, future generations must know about the past to protect themselves from such a fate in the future.
The event was prepared by teachers of the college NS Demchenko-Yasynetska and YM Korzh. Library staff L. Angarska and G. Zhulinska provided active assistance in preparing for the Remembrance Day
