In St. Petersburg, Jews were not allowed to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust
In St. Petersburg, it was not allowed to hold the annual mourning ceremony in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Its organizer, the St. Petersburg Jewish Community Center, announced this on social media. The ceremony was planned for October 6, but the administration of the Pushkin district of St. Petersburg refused the municipality, citing the coronavirus restrictions.
The refusal to approve the memorial action was signed by the deputy head of the district administration, Vladimir Lvov, reports “Fontanka”. He points to the resolution of the city government prohibiting the holding of public events and their attendance by citizens until December 31, 2024 – unless otherwise provided by Rospotrebnadzor. At the same time, the ceremony was not prohibited in 2022 and 2023, Rotonda notes.
The Jewish community center called on all those who wish to honor the memory of the dead to come to the monument on their own “to light a memorial candle, read a prayer, and traditionally place a pebble at the foot of the memorial.”
- The mourning action in memory of the Jews of Pushkin, who were destroyed by the Nazis in 1941, is held annually on the first Sunday of October at the “Formula of Sorrow” monument at the site of mass shootings in the center of Pushkin – a suburb that is part of the administrative structure of St. Petersburg. After the occupation of Pushkin by Nazi troops, all the Jews who did not manage to evacuate, about 800 people, were destroyed in the city in a few days.
