YEREVAN. - Yerevan paid tribute to the victims of the Holocaust Thursday.

The representatives of the Jewish community of Armenia and empathic citizens visited and laid flowers at the Monument to the Holocaust victims in the capital.

The monument consists of two stelas, symbolizing the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. There are inscriptions in Armenian and Jewish on the stelas: “To the victims of Holocaust and Genocide” and “Live without forgetting”.  

The overall number of the Holocaust victims exceeded 6 mln.