About the visit of the delegation of the Embassy to the Island of Jersey

On June 29, a delegation from the Embassy of Belarus in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as part of a working visit and on the eve of Independence Day, laid a wreath at the “Memorial to Prisoners of Nazi Camps” located on the island of Jersey.

Following the solemn ceremony, the Charge d’Affaires of the Republic of Belarus, D.Kozlovsky, noted the following:

“The grand history of humanity is composed of the countless histories of individual countries, regions, cities, villages, and even individuals. This is especially felt on the small piece of land lost in the ocean between Great Britain and France, known as the island of Jersey. The work of preventing the oblivion of historical memory, the rehabilitation and whitewashing of Nazism, and transmitting the legacy of heroic grandfathers and great-grandfathers to future generations is an unconditional daily priority in the activities of the Embassy of Belarus in the United Kingdom, in accordance with the firm and uncompromising policy of the Head of State.”

A meeting also took place with the anti-fascist activist and head of the charitable public initiative for the creation of the memorial, Harry Fonto, to whom a copy of the large-scale documentary publication “The Genocide of the Belarusian People,” prepared by the Prosecutor General's Office, was presented.

“I would like to express special gratitude to our local district and like-minded individual, Harry Fonto, whose selfless efforts sustain the memorial. The history of Jersey has involuntarily become the history of his family, as Harry's father, a Spanish communist-republican, was himself a concentration camp prisoner, miraculously survived, and remained on Jersey as a guardian of the memory of the victims of Nazism, passing this mission on to his son. Thanks to people like Harry, the bright memory of those who fell and suffered in the fascist dungeons will always be in our hearts. And the Nazis, their accomplices, and imitators can only expect a just trial, which, in their case, is unlikely to be lenient” noted D.Kozlovsky.

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