Towards the Victory project, timed to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders, has opened in the library on May 3.
The organizers are the National Library of Belarus and the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus.
From the first days of the occupation, the German invaders began a deliberate policy of terror against the Belarusian population. As a result, a strong liberation movement of partisan groups emerged.
Director of the National Library of Belarus Roman Motulsky noted that Towards the Victory project was a good opportunity to touch the heroic past of our ancestors, to remember the victories, and to think about what price they had been conquered.
The event was attended by deputy director of the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus Elena Stukanova and chairman of the Council of Veterans of Minsk city organization of the Belarusian Public Association of Veterans Anatoly Adonyev.
Veterans of the Great Patriotic War – the witnesses to those distant terrible times, were honored guests at the event.
Visitors to the library can learn more about the daily life and fighting of Belarusian partisans. As part the Towards the Victory project, an art exhibition of the same name and Forest Song book exhibition run in the library.
The project presents fiction and non-fiction, graphic materials, diaries of brigades, combat leaflets, maps, as well as touching watercolors and sketches of partisans’ everyday life and military operations, illustrations to articles made by members of the liberation movement in times of war.
The exhibition runs in the gallery “Atrium” (3rd floor) until August 14, 2019.
The closing date may be changed.
The opening hours of the exhibition correspond to the library’s opening hours.
Admission is by library card or by ticket of the library's social and cultural center. Information and tickets may be obtained at the registration desk.
For more info: (+375 17) 266 37 37, (+375 17) 293 28 81.
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