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...

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...

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...

2022–2024 | Prosecutor General’s Office of Belarus’ Criminal Proceedings

by Research Group Azaryčy 1944 | May 20, 2025 | Echoes

In April 2021, the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Republic of Belarus initiated criminal proceedings for genocide against the Belarusian population during the Great Patriotic War and in the post-war period. “Генеральный прокурор Республики Беларусь в...

22.06.2022 | “Wehrmacht let ‘useless eaters’ die in camps”

by Research Group Azaryčy 1944 | May 19, 2025 | Echoes

The article, which was first published in a 2014 issue of the German newspaper Welt, recalls the war crimes committed by the German Wehrmacht in the Azaryčy region of Belarus. In March 1944, German soldiers herded thousands of Belarusian civilians into a barbed wire...