Conducting lectures on the theme “Khatyn. Tragedy and Memory”, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Khatyn tragedy

As part of the “Archives to School” campaign and events dedicated to the Year of Peace and Creation, with students of the 8th grade of the state educational institution “Gymnasium No. 1 of Orsha named after. G.V. Semyonov” the employees of the archive held an information hour on the topic: “Khatyn. Tragedy and Memory”, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Khatyn tragedy.

The children got acquainted with archival documents, photographs, learned about the events that took place in the village of Khatyn and the fate of its inhabitants, as well as about the memorial complex created at the site of the tragedy.

During the war years, the Nazis carried out more than 140 major anti-partisan punitive operations in the occupied territory of Belarus. Their main goal is the destruction of the partisans. However, in fact, the main blow fell on the civilian population. Villages were burned down, inhabitants were destroyed and driven away for forced labor, their property, livestock, and agricultural products were robbed.

The bells of Khatyn should remind of the tragic fate of the Belarusian villages. The Khatyn alarm is a memory and a warning.

It was the dedication, resilience, genuine love for the Motherland of front-line soldiers and home front workers that determined the outcome of the most terrible war in the history of mankind and saved the peoples of the planet from extermination, slavery, and the destruction of national and cultural identity. And our very life, the life of our children, grandchildren, everyone who is yet to be born on this earth is a direct merit of the people who gave the world the Great Victory.