On the holding by employees of the institution «Zonal State Archive in Orsha» within the framework of the action «Archives for School» lectures on the topic «Holy memory of the past days. Genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War»

As part of the «Archives to School» campaign and events dedicated to the Year of Peace and Creation, for the purpose of civic-patriotic, ideological education, the archive employees held an information hour on the topic «Holy memory of the past days. Genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War».

During this event, the children got acquainted with archival documents and photographs reflecting the policy of the Nazi invaders in relation to the civilian population of the Vitebsk region, including residents of the city of Orsha and the Orsha region during the Great Patriotic War, as well as the numerous atrocities of the Nazis and irreparable losses brought by the war.

In addition, the students were shown a film about the Ozarichi concentration camp, which lasted only 10 days and claimed the lives of 20,000 people.