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 since 2014. With the support of renowned institutions such as the Deutsch-Russisches Museum Berlin-Karlshorst and the Gedenkstätte Theresienstadt, it commemorates the victims and their remembrance in various countries. The goal of the exhibition is to establish Maly Trostenets as a significant site of memory in Europe. Since its opening in Hamburg in 2016, the exhibition has been shown in over 30 cities. The recent digitalization and English translation make it possible to reach an even broader international audience.
In addition to the main exhibition and the biographies of the victims, there is an additional extension concerning the Death Camps in the village of Azaryčy. This outlines both the war crimes committed by the German Wehrmacht in Azaryčy and the liberation by the Red Army, as well as the sentencing of individual perpetrators, up to the erection of a memorial and a small museum.1
- Vernichtungsort Malyj Trostenez. Geschichte und Erinnerung: Osaritschi. Die Sterbelager. Access via: trostenez.org/erweiterung/ (last checked: 30.06.2024). ↩︎
