Exhibition of documents on 70th anniversary of liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders opened at the meeting of war veterans in Minsk Region
On 12 May 2014 as part of the ceremonial reception of the war veterans of Minsk Region an exhibition of documents was opened to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders.
The exhibition was prepared by the State Archives of Minsk Region with the support of the Minsk Region Executive Committee Justice Administration.
The exhibition features records on four thematical sections.
The first section “Partisans and Underground Movement” contains memoirs of the participants in the Partisan movement, data on the Heroes of the Soviet Union from the records of the Minsk Regional Underground Committee, memoranda by the chiefs of the partisan detachments and formations.
The second section “Records of the Occupation Authorities” includes directives and announcements by the Occupation administration, the restored documents of the Minsk Town Commissariat.
The third section “Personal Records and Recollections of War Veterans” contains archival materials of the participants in the Great Patriotic War. These are the front-line diaries of artilleryman A. P. Sapunov, letters from the front by V. K. Petyurenko, letters of thanks from the command to Lieutenant Aksenov for the taking of Warsaw, Berlin, Stargard and Altdamm, etc.
The fourth section “The Liberation” narrates of the final stage in the Great Patriotic War, including information on the dates of the occupation and liberation of the district center of Pleshchenitsy, a letter from a female resident of Minsk to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus requesting for reevacuation, a memorandum on the activity of the destructive groups in Minsk region in July 1944.
The exposition runs from 12 May to 23 May in the building of the Minsk Region Executive Committee (4, Engelsa Str.)
