On the 82nd anniversary of the Khatyn tragedy, employees of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region took part in a ceremony of laying flowers at a memorial sign dedicated to the victims of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War

On March 22, 1943, Nazi collaborators carried out a punitive operation in the village of Khatyn. 149 of its residents died, 75 of them children under the age of 16. The village was plundered and burned to the ground.

Today, Khatyn is a symbol of the pain and suffering of the Belarusian people and the inhumanity of war for everyone.

The memorial events held throughout the republic, in the context of the information war declared on Belarus by a number of Western countries, indicate that Belarusians preserve the historical truth about the events that actually took place on Belarusian soil during its occupation by the Nazi invaders.

On March 23, 2025, a flower-laying ceremony was held in Vitebsk at the memorial sign dedicated to the victims of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War.

Employees of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region took part in the ceremony.

1. In Vitebsk, in memory of the village of Khatyn and its residents, a flower-laying ceremony is being held at the memorial sign dedicated to the victims of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War

2. At the memorial sign dedicated to the victims of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War on the 82nd anniversary of the Khatyn tragedy.

3. Director of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region Korol Aleksandr Nikolaevich, Deputy Director of the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region Buevich Tatyana Vladimirovna and Head of the Sector for Ideological Work and Youth Affairs of the Zheleznodorozhny District Administration of Vitebsk Igor Yuryevich Kiryutenko before the start of the ceremony of laying flowers at the memorial sign dedicated to the victims of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War, on the 82nd anniversary of the Khatyn tragedy.