Penza schoolchildren learned about the Holocaust

Employees of the Lermontov Penza Regional Library held an event dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. It was dedicated to the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz by the Red Army.

The event was attended by schoolchildren of the Penza Gymnasium № 42. The pupils were told about the history of the Holocaust, presented photographs and archival documents containing eyewitness accounts of those tragic events, and were shown a fragment of the 1938 film Professor Mamlok about the cruel persecution of Jews.

The Lermontov Penza Regional Library also provides a book exhibition The Right to Remember, which focuses on the events of the Holocaust. The exposition involves electronic presentation of rare publications from the Presidential Library's collections. The exhibition materials clearly demonstrate how, after severe trials, people returned to life. The exposition also includes the encyclopedias Holocaust and Holocaust in the USSR.

The Presidential Library’s portal features the collection Penza Region: Pages of History. It includes archival documents, essays, studies, statistical and other materials covering various aspects of the development of the region in different historical periods.

Based on the materials of http://liblermont.ru/ portal