On the participation of employees of the institution «State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region» in the opening of a memorial sign to the victims of the genocide of the Belarusian people and the reburial of the remains of the victims of the genocide found in the Kazimirowski forest

As part of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders and the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, employees of the institution «State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region» took part in the opening of a memorial sign to the victims of the genocide of the Belarusian people and the reburial of the remains of the victims of the genocide found in the Kazimirowski forest.

The remains of 304 civilians, including 134 women and 1 child, were found by the investigative group of the Prosecutor General’s Office in the Kazimirowski forest on the outskirts of the city as part of the investigation of the criminal case on the genocide of the Belarusian people. All the remains were reburied in compliance with all established ritual and state procedures.

The memorial sign to the victims of the genocide of the Belarusian people in the Kazimirowski forest will become a symbol of memory of the most terrible place in Mogilev during the occupation. Here the punitive forces brutally destroyed civilians living in the city and its suburbs, underground fighters, and participants in the anti-fascist resistance. They shot, brought here in gas chambers, threw the dead and alive into bomb craters, and buried them.

1. Speech by the Prosecutor General of the Republic of Belarus Andrei Shved.

2. Releasing pigeons at the opening of the memorial sign.

3. Memorial sign to the victims of genocide.

4. Reburial of remains.