Round table “Tragedy. Heroism. Memory” on the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, 25 February 2011

25 February 2011, the History Institute at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus held a round table “Tragedy. Heroism. Memory” dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

The organizers were the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, the Department of Humanities and Arts at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, and the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus.

Participants included employees from the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Foundation for Assistance to Historical Studies “Historical Memory”, journals “Belaruski gistarychny chasopis”, “Polymia” and “Gistoryia: prablemy vykladannia”.

Reports were delivered by the director of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Republic of Belarus A. Adamushko, academician-secretary of the Department of Humanities and Arts at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus A. Kovalenya, director of the Historical Memory Foundation A. Dyukov, member of the scholarly council at the National Library of France Vincent Boulet, professor at the Paris 8 University G Shepelev, and more.

The event included the presentation of books and the Journal of Russian and East European Studies published by the Historical Memory Foundation.