From January 12 to February 13, the thematic book exhibition "The Holocaust: Without the Right to Oblivion" dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is open in the Hall of Documents of International Organizations (room 207g).

This Day was established on November 1, 2005 at the 60th session of the UN General Assembly (Resolution 60/7 "Holocaust Remembrance") and is celebrated annually on January 27 – the day of the liberation by Soviet troops of the largest Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.

The Holocaust is the deliberate and systematic persecution and extermination during the Second World War by German Nazis and collaborators from other countries of representatives of the Jewish people, Slavs, Gypsies, people with mental and physical disabilities. To this end, a special system was developed in the Third Reich, which included death camps created in Germany and in the territories occupied by it. About 6 million Jews became victims of the Holocaust. Millions of Soviet prisoners of war and civilians, representatives of European nations, died in death camps.

The Republic of Belarus was one of the co-sponsors of the resolution "Memory of the Holocaust". During the war, over 800 thousand Jews were killed on the territory of Belarus. Events dedicated to this memorial Day are held annually in our country.

During the war, Belarus lost every third inhabitant and went through all the horrors of the Holocaust. More than two and a half hundred death camps and places of mass destruction of people were created in the Nazi-occupied territory of the country. Among them are the Minsk ghetto, as well as the largest Nazi death camp in Belarus, Trostinets, in which civilians, prisoners of war and the Jewish population deported from Austria, Germany, Poland and other countries were exterminated.

The exhibition, offered to readers, 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 monstrous crimes of the Nazis. All these materials are evidence of respect for those who survived, and a tribute to the memory of the deceased victims. They reflect the hope that studying this tragedy will encourage humanity to resolutely reject all forms of racism, violence and anti-semitism.

The exhibition consists of the following thematic sections:

The history of the Holocaust
It's impossible to forget (memories of the Holocaust)
Lessons of the Holocaust
The Holocaust on the territory of Belarus

The exhibition will be of interest to historians, specialists in the field of international law, world politics, international relations and human rights, as well as students, undergraduates, and teachers.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is intended to remind of the continued commitment to combating anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of intolerance that can lead to targeted acts of violence against entire groups of people.

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The opening hours of the exhibition corresponds to the library’s opening hours
Admission is by the library ticket or ticket of the library's social and cultural center.
Phone number for inquiries: (+375 17) 293 27 34.

The material was provided by the Service Department with Official Documents.

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