The beginning of the war in Belarus

The state of the population and the economy in Belarus

Houses of Soviet officers in the Brest fortress destroyed on the first day of the war.
Brest. 22 June 1941.
(BGAKFFD, 0-103321)
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Refugees. Local residents escape from the occupiers.
Belarus. June 1941.
(BGAKFFD, 0-95150)
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From the memoirs of Minsk resident, K.I. Korol, about the beginning of the war.
1962.
(NARB, f. 1346, op.1, d. 157, l. 1-3)
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Information message from the Gomel Evacuation Commission on the results of evacuation from Gomel and the western districts from 24 June to 18 July 1941.
After 18 July 1941.
(NARB, f. 4, op. 29, d. 3, l. 116)
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Evacuation of the Mogilev Machine Works.
Mogilev. [June-July] 1941.
(BGAKFFD, 2-1733)
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Report from the chairman of the Belarusian Council of People’s Commissars, I.S. Bylinsky, to the deputy chairman of the USSR Council of People’s Commissars, A.N. Kosygin “On the evacuation of valuable property and people from the Belarusian Republic”.
20 July 1941.
(NARB, f. 4, op. 33a, d. 5. l. 1-4)
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Burning houses on the Sovetskaia Street in Gomel.
August 1941.
(BGAKFFD, 0-71263)
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Report from the Belarusian People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs, A.P. Matveev, to the Belarusian Communist Party Secretary, P.K. Ponomarenko, concerning the situation in Gomel prison.
4 August 1941.
(NARB, f. 4p, op. 33a, d. 41, l. 10-11)
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Report from the Belarusian Communist Party Secretary, P.K. Ponomarenko, to I.V. Stalin, V.M. Molotov, and L.M. Kaganovich “On the results of evacuation from the Belarusian Republic”.
17 August 1941.
(NARB, f. 4p, op. 33a, d. 6, l. 21-24)
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