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

On the eve of the celebration of National Unity Day, on September 15, 2023, as part of the «Archives to School» campaign, the institution «State Archives of the Grodno Region» held a lesson on theme «Reunification of Western Belarus with the BSSR».

Archive staff told schoolchildren about the socio-economic and cultural transformations in the Grodno region after the reunification of Western Belarus with the BSSR in 1939. Students were shown documentary materials reflecting the implementation of Soviet policy in the western regions of the BSSR: orders on the nationalization of industrial enterprises and institutions, protocols of the land department on the allocation of land to the population, orders from the education department on the reorganization of Polish schools into Belarusian-language ones and many other documents.

The lesson ended with a sightseeing tour of the archive, during which the children visited the laboratory for restoration, binding and repair of documents, as well as the archive storage.