16 January 2022, 11:37
Exhibition on Remembrance Day of Holocaust Victims attracts North-Ossetian residents
An exhibition dedicated to the Holocaust Victims' Remembrance Day has opened in Vladikavkaz. During the fascist occupation in the fall of 1942, about 600 Jews perished in the Mozdok District, Gergart Nadel, the author of the exhibition and director of the Memorial Museum of Memory of Victims and Heroes of the Holocaust named after Pechersky in Vladikavkaz, has explained.
The exhibition was opened in the Memorial House – the I. A. Pliev Museum; it was organized jointly with the regional public Jewish cultural and educational organization "MIR" (SHOLOM). The International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be marked on January 27.
The Holocaust has not bypassed Ossetia, Aslan Tsutsiev, a historian and the director of the National Museum of North Ossetia, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. According to his story, part of the territory of North Ossetia was occupied in the autumn of 1942; in the Mozdok District, about 600 Jews ended up in concentration camps and were tortured to death there.
North Ossetia was one of the strategic goals of the fascist Germany in Northern Caucasus, since it opened the road to Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Georgia; it was important for Nazis to capture the Georgian Military and Ossetian Military Highways.
"No doubt, such exhibitions are needed, because they help preserving the historical memory. And, first of all, they are important for young people, because today we see how Europe is trying to reconsider the course of World War II and the role of the Soviet Army in liberation of Europe," Mr Tsutsiev has stressed.
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on January 15, 2022 at 09:58 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Author: Emma Marzoeva Source: CK correspondent
