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 «Khatyn. Tragedy and Memory», dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Khatyn tragedy
March 22, 2023 as part of the «Archives to School» campaign and events dedicated to the Year of Peace and Creation, with students of the 3rd, 6th grades of the state educational institution «Secondary School No.6 of Orsha» and with students of the 7th grade of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School No.17 of Orsha», archive workers held information hours on the topic: «Khatyn. Tragedy and Memory», as a tribute to the memory of the inhabitants of the village of Khatyn, burned to the ground 80 years ago by the Nazi invaders and in memory of hundreds of Belarusian villages destroyed during the Great Patriotic War.
The tragedy of Khatyn and the thousands of villages of our country that shared its fate is living evidence of the purposeful policy of genocide of Nazi Germany against the population of Belarus. According to recent studies, in the republic, the Nazi invaders destroyed and burned at least 216 cities and regional centers, more than 9 thousand villages, many of them have never been reborn from the ashes.
«Good people, remember: we loved life and our Motherland, and you, dear ones. We were burned alive in the fire. Our request to all: let grief and sorrow turn into your courage and strength, so that you can establish peace and tranquility on Earth forever. So that from now on, nowhere and never in a whirlwind of fires, life does not die!» – a symbolic appeal of the dead to the living with a request to preserve peace and tranquility on earth, imprinted on the mass grave of the Khatyn memorial complex. The tragedy of the burned Belarusian villages, the death of thousands of peaceful people is impossible and must not be forgotten!
