Conducting a lesson for 9th grade students as part of the «Archives for School» campaign

On March 29, 2023, as part of the «Archives to School» campaign, the institution «The State Archive of the Grodno Region» held a lesson on the topic «Echo of War» for 9th grade students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.2 in Grodno».

The attention of schoolchildren was presented with documentary materials reflecting the activities of the occupying authorities on the territory of the Grodno region during the Great Patriotic War.

The children also listened with interest to the Internet projects in which the archive took part: «Letters of Victory», «Crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices against the civilian population of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.».

The students were presented with the exhibition «There was a people’s war. Partisans and underground fighters of the Grodno region», «Human fates. In memory of the victims of fascism», as well as collections of documents and materials prepared with the participation of the State Archives of the Grodno Region.

The archive staff demonstrated to schoolchildren the process of restoring documents in the laboratory for restoration, binding and repair, and also showed the equipment for digitizing documents.