«Archives for School»: an excursion for students of the educational institution «Mogilev State Polytechnic College»

As part of the «Archives for School» campaign, on October 17, 2024, the institution «State Archives of the Mogilev Region» was visited by 3rd-year students of the educational institution «Mogilev State Polytechnic College»

During the excursion, the children got acquainted with the banner exhibition «Again, let’s look closer to the past», which is dedicated to the events from the history of the city of Mogilev during the Great Patriotic War and the restoration of the city in the post-war period. The greatest interest of the guests was aroused by the heroic defense of Mogilev, as well as the facts of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the war.

The guests also got acquainted with the work of the archive, the procedure for accessing archival documents, visited the archive storage and the laboratory for digitizing documents.

After the excursion, the students were shown the film «Liberation» in the reading room of the archive. It was prepared by the staff of the institution «Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents» (Dzerzhinsk) as part of the project «Open Film Archive. We Brought This Day Closer as We Could», dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Republic of Belarus from the Nazi invaders.

Of particular interest were the facts of the forced deportation of the working population to the territory of Nazi Germany. Hard physical labor and unbearable conditions of detention in the fascist camps made an indelible impression on them.

1. Leading archivist Alexander Petukhov introduces the children to the banner exhibition «Again, let’s get closer to the past with a glance».

2. Students of the educational institution «Mogilev State Polytechnic College» against the background of the banner exhibition «Again, let’s get closer to the past with a glance» in the lobby of the archive.