The Project “Partisan Zones in Belarus in World War Two” is a special rubric \r\non the Archives of Belarus website, an internet resource of the archives and RM \r\nauthorities and the state archives network in the Republic of Belarus, dedicated \r\nto the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. <\/p>\r\n
Purposes
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\r\nThe Project aims to give on the Internet a more \r\ncomplete information about the contribution of Belarusian people to the \r\nstruggle against the Nazi aggression and to highlight \r\nwith archival sources a distinguishing feature of the Partisan Movement in \r\nNazi-occupied Belarus in 1941-1944 \u2013 \r\nthe expulsion of \r\nthe invaders from the vast areas and the restoration of Soviet administrations in these districts.<\/p>\r\n
Structure
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\r\nThe project offers an exhibition of archival documents and materials relating \r\nto the partisan-controlled zones in Belarus in World War II.<\/p>\r\n
The exhibition shows over 300 records (their electronic copies) available \r\nfrom the Belarusian State Archives of Films, Photographs and Sound Recordings, \r\nthe National Archives of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian State Archives-Museum \r\nof Literature and Art, and the Belarusian Research Center for Electronic Records.\r\n<\/p>\r\n
The material is structured in two levels:
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\r\n– List of records, including their title, date, type, language and location \r\nindex. On the right are the links to view a full-size record. The records are \r\narranged mainly by territorial unit and in chronological order.
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\r\n– Electronic copies of records. <\/p>\r\n
The exposition consists of 11 thematic sections (38 internal groups) which \r\nillustrate different aspects of guerilla warfare and partisan-controlled zones \r\nin Belarus, provide information on combat, economic and social activities of partisan fighters and local residents. On display are official \r\ndocuments of the central and local Partisan and Party organisations. A number of \r\nrecords illustrate the participation of individual persons in the events. To highlight some key issues on the topic we have also used published material from the encyclopedic, academic and other \r\neditions (in particular, a three-volume book “The all-people’s struggle in \r\nBelarus against the Nazi occupiers”). <\/p>\r\n
The bulk of the exposition are photographs and textual records. \r\nThe majority of the texts are typescripts and about one third are manuscripts (mainly \r\noriginal items, in full and fragments). On display are also 15 maps, 9 \r\naudio records and 9 video records (fragments from radio programs and \r\ndocumentary films).<\/p>\r\n
The offered material is not exhaustive and further research is possible on the subject. <\/p>\r\n