Preserving the memory of concentration camp prisoners. A single Internet portal is being created in Belarus. The National Archives in Minsk hosted a ceremony of signing a memorandum on the launch of the patriotic project. The event was attended by witnesses of those terrible events from all over the country.
Veniamin, Metropolitan of Minsk and Zaslavl, High Priest of All Belarus:
This project is conceived in order to remember, to know and at the same time to cherish the heritage that we have and to try to prevent anything similar on our Belarusian land. This is also attention to the people who have gone through the ordeal - there are few of them left.
Maksim Misko, Chairman of the Board of the Belarusian Peace Foundation:
“A lot of information has already been collected, we have the Prosecutor General's Office collecting information and the Investigative Committee. There is a lot of information in the archives. But the idea is to unite everything today and create a portal that will really serve people. There is still a lot of digitization to be done, a lot of interviews to be conducted. More than 400 prisoners are still alive.”
Anna Mikhailova, Chairwoman of the Gomel regional organization "Belarusian Association of Former Juvenile Prisoners of Fascism":
"I believe that memory is an ambassador from the past to the future. Of course, human memory is eternal in any case. And it is through memory that we pass on our hard childhood, simply put, because the Germans took away our childhood, but they did not take away our love of life."
