Memorial close to Azaryčy, inaugurated in 1994
22.09.2006 | “A shattering childhood”
In front of a school class aged between seventeen and nineteen, survivors recounted the terrible events of March 1944, when they were brought to the Azaryčy camps with their families as children. The students listened spellbound as the survivors talked about the...
04.12.1945 | “Concentration camps with no accommodation”
On December 4, 1945 – surprisingly early after the World War II – Ernst Trip published an article in the Schwäbische Zeitung. He referred to the Azaryčy deportations and discussed the crimes of the German Army against the civilian population in Belarus. „Zu Beginn des...
20.11.1945 – 01.10.1946 | Nuremberg Trials: Scrutinizing the Violence in Azaryčy
At the beginning of 1944, before the liberation by the Red Army, the Germans set up three concentration camps without accommodation in the Azaryčy regions of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic and imprisoned tens of thousands of people from the neighboring...
11.05.1946 | “Which returnee can provide information?”
In May 1946 the Badener Tagblatt published a collective report of missing persons, including a reference to Walter Klöpfer, who had been missing near Azaryčy since January 19, 1944. The editors asked returnees for information on his whereabouts. „Obgefr. Walter...