15.03.2024 | Commemoration of the 80th Anniversary of the Victims of the War Crimes in the Village of Azaryčy in Osnabrück

by Forschungsteam Ozarichy 1944 | May 27, 2025 | Echoes

On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the deportations of Azaryčy by the Wehrmacht, in which around 50.000 people were abducted and around 9.000 died, Aliaksandr Dalhouski and Christoph Rass gave a lecture in the Osnabrück council chamber. The event, as part of...

14.01.2005 | Search for Clues in Belarus

by Forschungsteam Ozarichy 1944 | Apr 6, 2025 | Echoes

(German original) “In March 1944, the German Wehrmacht committed one of its greatest crimes of the Second World War by deporting around 50.000 civilians from the area around Azaryčy in Belarus and locking them up in camps where they were abused as human shields...

03.07.1997 | Disclosure of New Azaryčy Memorial

by Forschungsteam Ozarichy 1944 | Mar 26, 2025 | Echoes

3D model of the Memorial in Azaryčy. Please click on the picture to view the model. After the liberation by the Red Army, evidence was collected in Azaryčy which was used for the Nuremberg trials. One perpetrator, General Richert, was convicted and executed in 1946,...

Date Unknown | Addendum to the Digital Exhibition „Extermination Site Maly Trostenets. History and Remembrance“

by Forschungsteam Ozarichy 1944 | Mar 20, 2025 | Echoes

The exhibition “Extermination Site Maly Trostenets. History and Remembrance” (Vernichtungsort Malyj Trostenez. Geschichte und Erinnerung) is the result of international collaboration by historians from Belarus, Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic...

18.03.2019 – 20.03.2019 | The Geschichtswerkstatt “Leonid Lewin“ Minsk Commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Azaryčy Extermination Camp

by Forschungsteam Ozarichy 1944 | Mar 19, 2025 | Echoes

3D model of the Memorial in Azaryčy. Please click on the picture to view the model. From March 18 to 20, 2019, commemorative events were held in Belarus to mark the liberation of the Azaryčy extermination camp. Organized by IBB J. Rau Minsk, the Leonid Lewin History...