The second book in the series “With No Statute of Limitations” has been published

The second book in the series “With No Statute of Limitations” has been published, which tells about the crimes committed by the Nazis and their accomplices against the civilian population in the occupied territory of the Gomel region. The collection of documents and materials has been prepared by the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus with the participation of the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Records, the State Archives of Gomel Region and the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The book is published with financial support from the Association of Historians of the Union State “Union Initiative of Memory and Consent” and the “Historical Memory” Foundation. The book includes 150 documents, most of them from the holdings of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, the State Archives of Gomel Region, and the State Archives of the Russian Federation.

The book includes two sections: “Nazi Policy of Genocide and Scorched Land” and “Investigation of the Crimes of German Occupiers”. The first section publishes documents on the crimes committed by the Nazis in the occupied territory of the Gomel region. Among them are wartime documents of the two warring sides, the German and the Soviet. The second section contains documents on the establishment and investigation of the facts of the crimes committed. The compilers prepared four appendices: “List of Places of Forced Detention of Civilians in the Occupied Territory of the Gomel Region”, “List of Places of Mass Extermination of Jews in the Occupied Territory of the Gomel Region”, “List of Major Punitive Operations Conducted in the Gomel Region in 1941-1944” and “List of Rural Settlements in the Gomel Region, Destroyed in Full or in Part by the Occupiers”. The publication is provided with commentaries, a geographical index, a list of abbreviated words and an illustration block.

The total volume of the collection exceeds 570 pages.

The publication is intended for historians, archivists, local historians and all those interested in the history of Belarus.