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

On February 23, 2024, as part of the «Archives to School» campaign, the institution «State Archives of the Grodno Region» held a lesson on the topic «Partisan and underground struggle in territory of the Grodno region during the Great Patriotic War» dedicated to Defender of the Fatherland Day.

The lesson was dedicated to the heroes and participants of the Great Patriotic War. Students got acquainted with the documents of the partisan and underground brigades operating in the Grodno region during the Nazi occupation: orders from the headquarters of the partisan brigades, combat logs, notebooks, photographs, as well as memories and letters of participants in the Great Patriotic War. Also, the schoolchildren were presented with an exhibition of documents «There was a people’s war. Partisans and underground fighters of the Grodno region.» The students were shown a social advertising video «War. The batteries of the four fronts did not stop talking day and night,» prepared by the institution «Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo and Sound Documents.»

Employees of the laboratory for restoration, binding and repair of documents demonstrated to students the process of restoring documents, and also showed equipment for digitizing documents.

The lesson ended with a sightseeing tour of the archives.