The International Day of the Nazi concentration camps prisoners release is the anniversary which is celebrated every year on April 11 by the initiative of the United Nations.
On April 11 2012 at 09:00 to celebrate the International Day of release the prisoners of Nazi concentration camps the solemn ceremony of laying flowers to memorial to Soviet citizens and war prisoners executed by Nazis at Babyn Yar had held.
The representatives of the President Administration of Ukraine, Vice- chairman of Kyiv City State Administration Leonid Novokhatko, chairman of the Shevchenko district State Administration of Kyiv Sergey Zimin, members of the Ukranian and city community organizations and Kyiv districts cells of Nazi concentrations camps prisoners and the public had participated in ritual of memory.
Flowers were laid and tribute was paid by a moment of silence before the monument „ Remembrance for the Sake of the Future”, the monument to Soviet citizens who were killed by Nazis at Babyn Yar and the monument to the inmates of the Syretsky concentration camp.
The history
On April 11 1945 Buchenvald prisoners began an international uprising against the Nazis and were liberated on that day . It seems so long ago it was. But not for those , who went through the horrors of the Nazi torture chambers. Biographies of these people are real lessons of courage for the young generation.
Whole in Germany and the occupied countries there were operated more than 14 thousand concentration camps. By recognition of SS themselves, the prisoner, whose expected lifetime in camp was less then only year, brought the Nazis nearly fifteen hundred Reichsmark net profit.
During the Second World War through the deth camps were 18 million people, including 5 million citizens of the Soviet Union.