19/7/18 @ 14:00 - 26/9/18, 0 Exhibition spaces in the 4th courtyard
historical & documentary exhibition
Between the spring of 1942 and the summer of 1944, Maly Trostenets, now an outskirt of Minsk, was the largest extermination complex in the occupied territory of the Soviet Union. To cover up the traces of their crimes at the end of 1943 the murderers had the bodies of their victims dug up and cremated. In August 1944, the Extraordinary State Commission investigating Nazi crimes estimated the death toll at some 206,500 victims – primarily Belarusian, Austrian, German and Czech Jews, civilians, partisans, resistence fighters and Soviet POWs. After 1945, memorials were set up in the locality, while a major memorial was inaugurated in 2015. This exhibition – a German-Belarusian pilot project – pays tribute to the war dead, while showing how and where in Belarus, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic the Holocaust victims are commemorated. It also deals with the topography of extermination and the perpetrators themselves. Its ultimate purpose is to help entrench Maly Trostenets in international public perception as a European site of crime and remembrance.
the ceremonial opening of the exhibition will take part on July 19th, 2018 at 2 P.M.
cell. No. 41
