Memorial in Bereza Kartuska, memory of atrocities against "unwanted" nation

28 марта 2021
Our people faced genocide a hundred years ago, after the conclusion of the so-called Treaty of Riga, when the country was divided between the neighboring states. The western part of Belarus went to Poland. A sanction system was established in these territories. The policy of Polonization was actively pursued, the native Belarusian language was prohibited, schools were abolished, periodicals were closed and Orthodox churches were liquidated. 

The situation escalated when Piłsudski came to power. The pro-fascist authoritarian regime further aggravated the situation on the ancestral Belarusian territories. And after the peace treaty between Poland and Germany was signed, mass repression and terror against the Belarusian people began. 

One of the most terrible concentration camps was created in the small provincial town of Bereza Kartuska, now the town of Bereza. And if the Nazis killed people in such isolation zones, the Polish authorities asset a goal of moral destruction of people.