The National Archives of the Republic of Belarus presents the first two of the six volumes of the series “With No Statute of Limitations”

On July 22, 2021, the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus hosted a presentation of the first two of the six volumes of the collection from the series “With No Statute of Limitations”. The collections of documents concern the crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices against the civilian population of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War on the territory of Vitebsk and Gomel regions and include 326 Soviet and German documents.

The joint project is coordinated by the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus (hereinafter the Department). The authors of the project are the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, the Historical Memory Foundation and the Association of Historians of the Union State “Union Initiative of Memory and Consent” with the participation of archival institutions of our country.

The presentation was attended by representatives of the Department, the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Belarus, the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Historical Memory Foundation, heads of the central archival institutions of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War, the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, etc.

The First Deputy Director of the Department O. A. Ledovskaya in her speech focused on the great work done by the archival institutions of our country to study and popularize documents from the period of the Great Patriotic War. She emphasized the importance of this project as a documentary basis for the ongoing work in collecting evidence about the genocide of the Belarusian population during the Great Patriotic War.