The State Archives of Public Organizations of Gomel Region held a meeting with students of 8th-9th grades at Secondary School № 17 named after Francisco De Miranda in Gomel

The State Archives of Public Organizations of Gomel Region held a meeting with students of 8th-9th grades at Secondary School № 17 named after Francisco De Miranda in Gomel.

A lesson of historical memory was held on the topic “The tragedy of the Great Patriotic War in the fate of the Belarusian people” as part of the “Archives for School” campaign.

The event was opened by the Director of the Archives Natalya Abramova, who introduced the audience to the history of the archives, the composition of documents and features of their storage.

Natalya Abramova informed the school administration and students about the “Young Archivist” contest of research papers on historical events in the Gomel region, organized by the Main Department of Education, the Main Department of Justice and the Main Department of Ideological Work, Culture and Youth Affairs of the Gomel Regional Executive Committee. Schoolchildren were invited to try their hand at compiling works for a contest about historical events that took place during the Great Patriotic War.

The school has a museum corner dedicated to the Hero of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov, after whom the street on which the school is located is named. The director of the archives donated to the school a scanned copy of the personal file of Ilya Kozhar, one of the organizers and leaders of the partisan movement in the Gomel region.

Alexei Kochubey, an archivist in the sector of information, publication and use of documents, read to the students fragments from the diaries of participants in the Great Patriotic War and demonstrated photographs from 1943-1944 about the liberation of Gomel.

The students were also informed about the opening of the exhibition “Farewell, People…. Facts about the Nazi atrocities in occupied Gomel” and showed a special report from the excavation site of a mass military burial in the Chyonki forest.