The third collection of documents and materials in the series “With No Statute of Limitations” has been published
The third book in the series “With No Statute of Limitations”, which recounts the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices against the civilian population in the occupied territory of the Mogilev region, has been published. The collection of documents and materials is 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 Recordings, the State Archives of Mogilev Region, the Central Archives of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus and the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The book is published with the financial support of the Association of Historians of the Union State “Union Initiative of Memory and Consent” and the “Historical Memory” Foundation. The collection includes 163 documents, most of them are from the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus.
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 about the crimes committed by the Nazis in the occupied territory of the Mogilev region. Among them are wartime documents of the two warring sides, the German and the Soviet. The second section includes the documents on the establishment and investigation of the crimes committed. There are four supplements: “List of places of forced imprisonment of civilians in the occupied territory of Mogilev region”, “List of places of mass extermination of Jews in the occupied territory of Mogilev region”, “List of the largest punitive operations carried out in Mogilev region in 1942-1944” and “List of rural localities in Mogilev region that were completely or partly destroyed by the occupants”. The publication has an illustration block, comments, a geographical index, a list of abbreviated words, and a list of published documents.
The total volume of the collection is 520 pages.
The publication is intended for historians, archivists, ethnographers and all those interested in the history of Belarus.
