A meeting of students with former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and veterans of the Second World War was held today, April 11, at the Ukrainian Engineering Pedagogical Academy.

For the university, this has already become a traditional event, since it is in it that the professor, the chairman of the Kharkov regional council of fighters of anti-fascist resistance, the Honorary Kharkovite Igor Malitsky, who at one time held the concentration camps Terezin, Auschwitz, Mauthausen and his branch "Linz 3".

The meeting was dedicated to the 73rd anniversary of the International Day for the Release of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps and the 55th anniversary of the creation of the Kharkiv Regional Council of Fighters of Anti-Fascist Resistance.

Valentina Drobotko, Executive Director of the Kharkov Regional Association of Public Organizations of Disabled People and War Veterans, noted that the Academy is carrying out purposeful work on patriotic education of youth.

"That distant war plowed all cities and villages of our Motherland with a plow. Terrible stories are transmitted from generation to generation in virtually all families. And now in the East of our country there is a war where people are dying. Only a young, sensible, intelligent and patriotic generation can save the world on Earth, avoid mistakes of the past, prevent horrible tragedies, "said Valentina Drobotko.

As was noted at the meeting, there were more than 14,000 operatives in Germany and the countries it occupied. concentration camps, ghettos and prisons. Through them passed 18 million people, of which 11 million died. Part of his speech, Igor Malitsky dedicated memories related to his stay in concentration camps. Including how he fell into the hands of one of the most terrible criminals of the Third Reich - Dr. Josef Mengele, who put in Auschwitz inhuman experiments on people. At his order, Igor Malitsky was ripped out of all his teeth and tried to implant them later. Only an urgent transfer of all prisoners to Mauthausen stopped this experiment and saved the life of Kharkov.

"It's scary to even think what happened there, how many men, women and children died for nothing, including in gas chambers. War is a terrible thing, Nazism is even more terrible.

If not to save the world - mankind can be destroyed. Tell the children and grandchildren everything that we tell about, so that no one will forget about what was happening at that time. The future of our country depends on you all ", - Igor Malitsky addressed the students.

He said that now a book is being prepared for printing, in which his memoirs on deprivations in concentration camps are described in detail.

At the end of the event, a theme concert was held for the guests.