19.03.2024 | “Liberation from captivity was my second birthday”

by Forschungsteam Azaryčy 1944 | May 30, 2025 | Echoes

On March 19, 2024, the events near Azaryčy were commemorated in Belarus with a public memorial event. Numerous people gathered at the central memorial, on the former site of one of the camps, to keep the memory of those who died alive. Vladimir Gordienko, a survivor...

14.05.2024 | “Remarkably, no press reports!”

by Forschungsteam Azaryčy 1944 | May 30, 2025 | Echoes

In her essay for the socialist International Committee of the Fourth International (IKVI) dated May 14, 2024, Verena Nees reports on the commemorative events held in Osnabrück and Berlin to mark the 80th anniversary of the Azaryčy death camps. In addition to retracing...

31.01.1946 | von Kurowski’s Third Hearing

by Forschungsteam Azaryčy 1944 | May 29, 2025 | Events

On January 31,1946, Lieutenant General Eberhard von Kurowski was questioned again as a prisoner of war about the events in Azaryčy. About a month after his first statement, von Kurowski confirmed that the camps can legitimately be considered as so-called death camps....

19.02.1946 | Witness Ms. Ludmila Pekarskaya

by Forschungsteam Azaryčy 1944 | May 29, 2025 | Events

Ms. Ludmila Pekarskaya, one of the witnesses of the Nuremberg trials, recounts her experiences as a survivor of the Azaryčy concentration camps: „Gegen Abend des 12. März 1944 wurden alle Einwohner von Chlobin gezwungen, sich innerhalb von 30 Minuten auf der...

19.03.2024 | “Who […] was to blame for what?”

by Forschungsteam Azaryčy 1944 | May 28, 2025 | Echoes

To mark the 80th anniversary of the events in Azaryčy, Heiner Wember from Deutschlandfunk radio conducted an interview with military historian Christian Hartmann, whose research focuses on the Wehrmacht activities on Soviet territory during the World War II. In...