June, 22 is the sad date of the beginning of the World War Two. This dreadful war took so many lives including the lives of many Jews who lived in Lugansk at that time. On June 22, 2011 the WWT memorial with the name “No forgetting, no forgiving” gathered the government representatives, Jews, students of the Beit Menachem school, veterans and youth. Here in 1942 some 4 thousand people were brutally killed most of them being Jews. All speakers underlined that such things must not happen ever again. We must not allow this. We must raise children and educate youth in spirit of tolerance toward other nations and saw kindness and spirituality. Then the chief rabi of the Lugansk region Shalom Gopin read the memorial prayer. After that flowers were laid to the monument and small stones as a symbol of Jewish mourning.
