{"id":1023301,"date":"2026-03-20T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1023301"},"modified":"2026-03-20T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:09:23","slug":"the-national-historical-archives-of-belarus-honored-the-memory-of-the-victims-of-the-khatyn-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1023301","title":{"rendered":"The National Historical Archives of Belarus honored the memory of the victims of the Khatyn tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20, 2026,<strong> a staff meeting<\/strong> was held in the conference hall of <strong>the National Historical Archives of Belarus<\/strong> to commemorate <strong>the 83rd anniversary of the destruction of the village of Khatyn by Nazi invaders<\/strong>. The event was dedicated to preserving the historical memory of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, <strong>Archives Director Mikhail Glushakov<\/strong> emphasized the importance of preserving the historical truth and preventing the distortion of facts about the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War. Khatyn has become a symbol for hundreds of Belarusian villages that shared the same tragic fate. Preserving documentary heritage is the foundation for fostering patriotism and passing on historical memory to future generations.<\/p>\n<p>A screening of <strong>the documentary film \u00abNo Statute of Limitations: They Burned Khatyn\u00bb<\/strong> was held during the meeting. The film, based on archival documents and witness testimony, reveals in detail the crimes committed by Nazi executioners and their collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting concluded with <strong>a moment of silence in memory of the deceased residents of Khatyn and all victims of punitive operations in Belarus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>NIA Belarus staff also plan to participate in <strong>nationwide memorial events and a flower-laying ceremony at the Khatyn memorial complex on March 22<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-112.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1081033\" class=\"wp-image-1081033 alignnone size-full\" width=\"70%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>1. Speech by Mikhail Glushakov, Director of the NIA Belarus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2-88.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1081034\" class=\"wp-image-1081034 alignnone size-medium\" width=\"70%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>2. NIA Belarus staff during the meeting<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 20, 2026, a staff meeting was held in the conference hall of the National Historical Archives of Belarus to commemorate the 83rd anniversary of the destruction of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023302,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023301\/revisions\/1023302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}