Participant of rally in Volgograd states insufficient support to prisoners of fascist concentration camps

A rally, dedicated to the international liberation day of prisoners of fascist concentration camps, was held today in Volgograd in Heroes Alley. According to the regional administration, it was 60 people strong – former prisoners of concentration camps, officials and schoolchildren.

Galina Sazhina, one of the participants of the rally, the Chair of the Volgograd branch of the "Russian Union of Former Juvenile Prisoners of Fascist Concentration Camps", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that as a child she was a prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp. There, in the "death camp", she lost her mother, grandmother and younger sister.

"Only one of ten children survived in the concentration camp," said Ms Sazhina. "It's hard to remember that; we have the only organization of former juvenile prisoners in the world; and every year we come here to pay tribute to our liberators, who gave us life."

Nina Boldyreva, the ombudsperson for the children's rights in the Volgograd Region, took part in the rally. She said: "In many aspects of social support, former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps are equated with the participants in the Great Patriotic War. But we believe, given that there are fewer and fewer eyewitnesses of the war and the people who have survived it, the state should additionally support them."

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.