24 Sept 2021

Day 151. Lithuanian Jews Genocide Rememberance Day and Ponary March of the Living

 About Lithuanian Jewish Genocide Rememberance Day I wrote on Day 102.

This year I took part in The Road of Memory. Ponary March of the Living.

March started @11:00  @Rudninkų squre with few speaches (among them a speach of our PM Ingrida Šimonytė) and few songs in Yddish.



Later the march headed towards The Central Railway Station for a train of 12:32 to Trakai.

Train was full of people. In Ponary the march headed towards the forest. 

Like was one of the particpants of the march has said: This forest is full of Sadness.

The forest has a smell of blueberries (subjective, because I felt this smell) and a smell of pine spikes.

The ceremony was full of wreaths of flowers and full of speaches. A lot of Ambassadors took part in the ceremony.

It's a sad ceremony. 

But we have to remember.

Never means never, never again means never again.

#JewishVilnius




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