Memorial close to Azaryčy, inaugurated in 1994
March 1944 | “They tore the children away and threw them onto the truck”
Arkadii Shkuran, born on July 25, 1934, in Paraslišča, experienced the German attack as a seven-year-old child. His father, grandfather and uncle were arrested in August 1942 as partisan helpers and got executed later. In March 1944, the Wehrmacht marched to Azaryčy,...
15.03.1944 | “Put down”
On March 15, 1944, two days after his first encounter with the deportations, Josef Perau visited the deportation camp near Rudabielka. At that time, about 10.000 civilians were gathered in a makeshift camp near the railhead, waiting to be marched towards the camp at...
14.03.1944 | “2.600 people on average”
According to the 9th Army final report, on the first three days of the operation, a total of nine trains, each carrying 2.600 civilians on average, left the collection train stations (German: Einladebahnhöfe) in Žlobin, Krasny Bierah and Cialuša. The report also...
14.03.1944 | Evgeniy Novitskiy’s Testimony
Evgeniy Novitskiy, born in 1932 in Zmiajoŭka, Belarus, describes the deportation of his family to the Azaryčy concentration camp: Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation. Access via:...
14.03.1944 | “Recklessness”
On March 14, 1944, a captain in the 253rd Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht filed a complaint against a sentence he recieved from the division’s court martial for fraternizing with a female interpreter. He argued that the accusations were proven wrong by his recent...