Exhibition of archival documents of Khatyn massacre opens at Belarusian Embassy in Moscow

23 марта 2018

A requiem evening was held at the Belarusian Embassy in Moscow, where they remembered the terrible tragedy. On 22 March 1943, the Nazis burned the village of Khatyn in Logoisk District. 149 people were burnt alive, 75 of them were children.

Today, Khatyn is known throughout the world as a symbol of Nazi atrocities during the Second World War. This is the fear, cruelty, and horror of war that must never happen again.

An exhibition of archival documents of the Khatyn massacre opened at the Belarusian Embassy in Moscow. It features pictures of Kaminsky – the only surviving villager, as well as pictures of Vasiura – the executioner who burned Khatyn residents and was executed only 43 years after the tragedy. Also, there are pictures of the military tribunal, which took place in 1946 at the House of the Red Army in Minsk.