Memorial close to Azaryčy, inaugurated in 1994
14.01.2005 | Search for Clues in Belarus
(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...
06.10.1945 | Indictment against Hermann Goering et al.
On October 6, 1945 Col. Smirnov, assistant prosecutor of the USSR, addresses the Nuremberg Tribunal. In his indictment against Nazi officials, he also mentions the deportations of Belarusian civilians to the Azaryčy concentration camps. “At the beginning of 1944...
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...
2022 | “Genocide of the Belarusian nation”
After the protest movements of 2020, a number of commemorative laws were passed by the Belarusian government, including the law “On the Genocide of the Belarusian People” (January 5, 2022). «Генеральной прокуратурой Республики Беларусь возбуждено и...
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...