Meeting-requiem was held in Disna

One of the bloody pages of history that cannot be forgotten was the massacre of Jews in Disna. Today the 80th anniversary of the tragedy is marked: on June 14, 1942, the German Nazis killed at least 3,800 civilians. Before the war, more than half of the Disna population had been Jews. With the German occupation, a ghetto was organized there. On that day, a crowd of people was driven to the place of execution. Those who tried to escape were shot by machine-gun fire. On a sandy wasteland, people were forced to dig two ditches 60 meters long – they became mass graves. According to the memoirs of local dwellers, by the evening of June 14, both trenches were filled with bodies. Today, a meeting-requiem was held at the site of the tragedy. Local residents, representatives of authorities and public organizations, schoolchildren and students gathered to honor the memory of the victims of fascism.