Gheto liquidation anniversary commemorated in Minsk

Memorial services have been held in Belarus and abroad on October 20 to mark the 65th anniversary of the liquidation by the Nazis of the Minsk ghetto. Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka, diplomats and religious leaders have laid wreaths at the Yama Holocaust memorial.

The Yama Memorial commemorates some 5,000 prisoners of the Minsk ghetto who were slaughtered by Nazis on March 2, 1942.