Memory of the war in Belarus

Celebrations and daily activities related to the events of the Great Patriotic War

In the ruins of the Brest Fortress 20 years later. Brest. 1961. (BGAKFFD, 0-103352)
Students of Verkhnedvinsk high school and their teacher make an itinerary for a tour of former Partisan sites. Vitebsk region. 1965. (BGAKFFD, 0-61567)
Members of the government delegation headed by the 1st Secretary of the Belarusian Communist Party, Hero of the Soviet Union P.M. Masherov (right) lay wreaths to Victory Monument on the Victory Square in Minsk on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism. Minsk. 9 May 1969. (BGAKFFD, 0-129645)
Students of Minsk High School № 91 plan a tour of the battle sites in Belarus to collect material for their school museum. 1 October 1969. (BGAKFFD, 0-81584)
Opening of the Glory Mound, a monument to the Soviet Army – liberator of Minsk from the Nazi occupiers. Minsk-Moscow highway, 21st kilometer. 5 July 1969. (BGAKFFD, 0-73619)
A resident of the burned village of Dalva, Logoisk district, M.P. Girilovich, near the symbolic grave of the village at the Khatyn Memorial Complex. Minsk region. 24 October 1987. (BGAKFFD, 0-126669)
Thrice Hero of the Soviet Union, Aviation Marshal A.I. Pokryshkin at the Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War. Minsk. 1974. (BGAKFFD, 0-102127)
WWII weapons and equipment at the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War. Minsk. 1984. (BGAKFFD, 0-148309)
Victory Square in Minsk during the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi occupiers. 3 July 1984. (BGAKFFD, 1-12334)
Celebrations at the Brest Hero-Fortress marking the 50th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Brest. May 1995. (BGAKFFD, 0-137605)
WWII veterans during the celebration of the 55th anniversary of the Victory at Victory Square in Vitebsk. 9 May 2000. (BGAKFFD, 0-156402)
A parade of WWII veterans with the participation of President of Belarus A.G. Lukashenko at the celebration of the 56th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi occupiers. 3 July 2000. (BGAKFFD, 0-150852)
Unveiling of the Memorial to Holocaust Victims and Minsk Ghetto. View of the bronze sculpture group “The Last Road”. Minsk. 10 July 2000. (BGAKFFD, Е016466)
Visitors at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War at the new exposition devoted to the heroism of workers on the home front. Minsk. February 2005. (BGAKFFD, Е007280)
President of the Republic of Belarus A.G. Lukashenko at the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Minsk. 9 May 2005. (BGAKFFD, Е004121)
Participants at the Victory 2005 Special Train arrive with the Victory Banner at the Brest railway station to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Victory over Nazi Germany. 9 May 2005. (BGAKFFD, Е009030)
V. Sverdlov (the only survivor among 84 children who lived in a ghetto in the area of Krynki Sanatorium, Osipovichi district, and were killed by the Nazis in April 1942 in Gaiuny near Bobruisk) near the monument “The Children’s Stone” built with his own money. November 2006. (BGAKFFD, Е011399)
Laying of flowers to the monument to Holocaust victims (D. Kogan, citizen of England, initiator of the exposition devoted to the Jewish resistance in the Great Patriotic War in Novogrudok (right) and a representative of the Israeli Embassy to the Republic of Belarus (left). Novogrudok, Grodno region. 2007. (BGAKFFD, Е013911)
WWII veterans and representatives of public organizations at the exhibition “Victory Weapons” at the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War (Hero of the Soviet Union A.F. Dyubko (second left) and a honorary citizen of Minsk and Vitebsk, academician, People’s Doctor of Belarus I.P. Antonov (first right). 3 May 2007. (BGAKFFD, Е012783)