Memorial close to Azaryčy, inaugurated in 1994
Date Unknown | Addendum to the Digital Exhibition „Extermination Site Maly Trostenets. History and Remembrance“
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...
19.03.2019 | Book Release in the Belarusian National Library
The Belarusian National Library organized a ceremony to present the book Polesie: Tragödie und Erinnerung: Verbrechen der Wehrmacht. Ozarichi Death Camp, 1944, written by former deportees Arkady Shkuran and Mikhail Sinkevich.Arkady Shkuran emphasizes: “Ozarichi was a...
19.03.2019 | “No barking dogs, no shots”
The National Library of Belarus held an event dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Azaryčy camps. During the meeting, German history professors Christoph Rass and Adam Kerpel-Fronius also spoke about the culture of remembrance in Germany. At the...
18.03.2019 – 20.03.2019 | The Geschichtswerkstatt “Leonid Lewin“ Minsk Commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Azaryčy Extermination Camp
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...
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...