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Wall of Memory opens on site of former Novogrudok ghetto Novogrudok celebrates the 75th anniversary of the liberation fr om the Nazi invaders. A rally of memory dedicated to the feat of the liberators was held in the city. Timed to the anniversary date, the Wall of Memory was opened on the site of the former ghetto. More than 100 people came to the event, including descendants of those who survived in the ghetto and then enrolled into the Jewish partisan detachment of the Belsky brothers. The guests...

Meeting-requiem to be held in Vitebsk at former Nazi concentration camp "Fifth Regiment" Today marks International Day of Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps. The date was set in memory of the international uprising of prisoners in 1945. A meeting-requiem will be held today in Vitebsk near the memorial on the territory of the former concentration camp "The Fifth Regiment". Thousands of prisoners suffered from hunger and diseases there. In memory of the terrible events an...

Memorable ceremonies to be held in Belarus on eve of mournful day On the eve of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Belarus, flowers will be laid at memorial signs and monuments, requiems and prayers will be held. Symbolic candles lighting and a mourning meeting in memory of the victims will take place at the Minsk Jewish cemetery, in the historical workshop and the Israeli cultural center. During the years of the German occupation, more than 800 thousand representatives of Jewish nationality...

President addressed participants of memorial events Events timed to the anniversary since the tragic elimination of the Minsk ghetto are held in the Belarusian capital. They were launched by a requiem meeting at the memorial complex Yama (The Grave). Politicians and public figures, ambassadors of foreign countries, former prisoners and righteous people of the world came to honor the memory of a hundred thousand Jews. After official speeches for peace and good and a memorial prayer, they laid flowers...

A.Lukashenko to take part in requiem rally to honor memory of Nazism victims Today, the second stage of the memorial Trostenets is to be opened on the outskirts of Minsk, at the site of the former World War II Nazi German death camp. Belarus President is to take part in a requiem rally to honor the memory of Nazism victims. Foreign delegations are to take part in the event, including presidents of Germany and Austria, representatives of NGOs from Israel, Poland, and Czech Republic. In 1941-1945...

Diplomats, military officials, MPs took part in the ceremony A wreath from the Belarusian Embassy in Russia was laid at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow. The solemn ceremony marked the 74th anniversary of Belarus' liberation from the Nazi invaders and Belarus' Independence Day. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is located in Moscow's Alexander Gardens, at the Kremlin Wall. Diplomats, military officials, MPs laid flowers at the memorial. A military orchestra performed the national anthem...

Belarus President, heads of European states, NGOs representatives to participate in requiem rally at site of former death camp Trostenets Tomorrow, Belarus President will take part in a requiem rally to honor the memory of Nazism victims. Foreign delegations are arriving in Minsk to take part in the event. Among them are presidents of Germany and Austria Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Alexander Van der Bellen. The Austrian ex-president Heinz Fischer will attend the requiem rally, too. Many other foreign...

Historical re-enactors recreated Brest Fortress defense episodes Today is the 77th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Day of the nationwide remembrance for its victims. At 3.30 a.m, a mourning ceremony began at the Brest Hero Fortress memorial. Here at dawn on 22 June, 1941, the frontier guards and defenders of the citadel faced the Nazis’ attack. Thousands of people, including foreign delegations from Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, have come to the memorial complex to...

ID tags help identify only one soldier, Pavel Ryabinin In Grodno, the remains of six Red Army soldiers who died in the fight to retake the city in June 1941 have been reburied. The remains were discovered in February during construction works. Today they have been solemnly reburied in a mass grave near the WWII memorial complex in the regional center. The ID tags have helped to identify only one soldier. His name is Pavel Ryabinin. Fortunately, his relatives have been found. A grand-nephew of the...

Ukraine carries out special programme aimed at finding Red Army soldiers and transferring their remains back to Belarus The remains and personal belongings of a Belarusian soldier, junior sergeant Timofei Morozov, who died in Ukraine during the Great Patriotic War, have been returned to his homeland. His relatives have not been found, that is why a decision was made to bury the remains in a mass grave. Back then, nearly 1,200 Belarusian border guards died in Kirovograd Region, Ukraine. Search missions...