The fourth book in the series “Without Statute of Limitations” about the crimes of the Nazis against the civilian population in the occupied territory of the Grodno Region has been published

The fourth book in the series “Without 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 Grodno Region. The collection of documents and materials has been prepared by the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus in cooperation with 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 Grodno Region, the State Archives of Public Associations of Grodno Region, the Central Archives of the State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus and the State Archives of the Russian Federation. The book was 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 collection includes 119 documents, most of them 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 the German Occupiers”. The first section publishes documents about the crimes committed by the Nazis in the occupied territory of the Grodno Region. These include wartime documents of the two warring sides, the German and the Soviet. The second section includes documents on the establishment and investigation of the crimes committed. Four supplements were prepared: “List of Places of Compulsory Detention of Civilians in the Occupied Territory of Grodno Region,” “List of Places of Mass Extermination and Deportation of Jews in Grodno Region,” “List of Major German Punitive Operations in Grodno Region in 1942-1944” and “List of Rural Settlements in Grodno Region Which Were Fully or Partially Destroyed by German Occupiers”. 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 268 pages.

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