MINSK, March 26 (BelTA) – the project titled as “Borisov’s pages of Holocaust” has been developed for tourists in the Minsk oblast. The presentation of the project will be held during the 2009 Tourist Fair which will be held in Minsk on April 1-4, BelTA learnt from director of Borisov travel company Four Seasons Galina Bernshtein. The itinerary runs via Borisov, the villages of Zembin, Mstizh and Krasny Oktyabr, the places where the tragic events happened in 1941-1944. During the Nazi occupation, 7,245 people were killed in a ghetto in Borisov. Memorial signs were erected in the villages of Zembin, Mstizh and Krasny Oktyabr where people were executed by the Nazis. According to Galina Bernshtein, before the war, 51% of Borisov’s residents were Jews. Jewish residential quarters, family houses, shopping streets, a Jewish cemetery and two synagogues still survive in Borisov. “It would be interesting for Belarusian and foreign tourists including those whose relatives were killed during the Holocaust to learn more about the life of the Borisov Jews before the war and after the war. That excursion is dedicated to the memory about the past for the future,” she added. The Holocaust is the term generally used to describe the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, as part of a programme of deliberate extermination planned and executed by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler. Some 715,000 Belarusian Jews were killed during the war. All in all, 805,000 Jews were killed in Belarus. БЕЛТА
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