The National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, the National Library of Belarus present a large-scale exhibition project “The Great Victory”
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus together with the National Library of Belarus present a large-scale exhibition project “The Great Victory”.
The main goal of the project is the preservation of historical memory and a deep understanding of wartime events.
The National Archives of the Republic of Belarus has presented the originals and copies of unique documents: chronicles of partisan detachments and brigades, personal cards of partisan personnel, award sheets of partisans, ciphered messages, documents on providing partisan units with medicines and weapons, combat journals.
The exposition also includes a number of authentic objects from the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War, as well as monographs, encyclopedias, collections of archival materials, documents and publications from the collections of the National Library of Belarus.
As part of the exhibition project, you can see banners of partisan detachments and combat Guards banners available from the State Museum of the History of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus under the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus.
The Belarusfilm cinema studio has provided the project with casual clothes of partisans and resistance fighters, military uniforms.
The museum objects give a voluminous perception of war events: tools for weapon workshops, a printing press, stamps, a radio set for an underground group, surgical instruments used in medical units of partisan detachments, as well as objects collected in places of execution – shackles, chains, prisoner-of-war pads.
