{"id":1025217,"date":"2026-08-21T09:15:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1025217"},"modified":"2026-08-21T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:15:26","slug":"archival-bulletin-the-incinerated-lives-of-the-village-of-brusy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1025217","title":{"rendered":"Archival Bulletin: The Incinerated Lives of the Village of Brusy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 27, 1943, the village of Brusy in the Myadel District was reduced to ashes. Hundreds of civilians perished in the fires of the punitive operation. Today, a monument stands on this spot: a woman-mother, frozen in a silent scream. Her upturned face is an eternal denunciation of fascism, and her clenched fingers are an attempt to hold on to what can never be returned.<\/p>\n<p>But this episode is more than just a chronicle of tragedy. It is a story about how women pass on memory through generations, like the baton of life. The project&#8217;s host, Vasilisa Dvoretskaya, stands at the memorial plaque and finds her great-great-grandfather&#8217;s name on it. This episode is permeated with women&#8217;s lives. What her great-grandmother once cherished is now preserved by her mother, an archivist, herself, and her sisters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00abStone is a scream. A document is a witness\u00bb, says the host<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the new episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9tqSsYnE3k0 \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>\u00abArchive Herald\u00bb<\/strong><\/a>. History speaks here. Memory lives here.<\/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\/08\/0-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1086699\" class=\"wp-image-1086699 alignnone size-full\" width=\"60%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 27, 1943, the village of Brusy in the Myadel District was reduced to ashes. Hundreds of civilians perished in the fires of the punitive operation. Today, a monument&#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-1025217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025217"}],"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=1025217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025218,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025217\/revisions\/1025218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}