Shurawitschy

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Shurawitschy ( Belarusian Журавічы ; Russian Журавичи , Schurawitschi ) is the name of a village in the southeast of Belarus in Homelskaya Woblasz . Shurawitschy is about halfway and a few kilometers east of the connecting road European route 95 (E95) between the cities of Mahiljou and Homel and about 20 kilometers northwest of Karma .

Map of the front line

Shurawitschy in World War II

On August 17, 1941, Schurawitschy was the location of the 112 field hospital and the 1/582 motorized field hospital of the German Wehrmacht .

Old school building in Schurawitschi (later a military hospital), demolished in 1956.

According to the information provided by the German Office for the Notification of Relatives of the Fallen of the Former Wehrmacht on March 4, 2005, Ref. IV / B221-471 / Wk, fallen German soldiers were buried in the park in the town of Schurawitschy. The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. commented on February 23, 2006 that this grave site in Shurawitschy was not yet known. Furthermore, it is not known whether the grave site can still be seen above ground today (case no. 764616 / Belarus). In his travel reports Reise nach Zhurawitchi (2006), Arnold Weers came to the conclusion that no more grave sites were recognizable above ground. Then the former school building (military hospital) next to the German military cemetery was torn down in 1956 and replaced by a new school building next to it.

Chernobyl contamination

According to the official definition of the zones of radioactively contaminated areas in Belarus, it is an area with the "right to resettlement". According to eyewitness reports by the Humanitarian Projects Working Group. V. from 2005 in the Karma region (near Shurawitschy) “[…] 40 villages alone were affected by the reactor disaster in Chernobyl . All of these villages had to be evacuated, almost always without notice and within hours, leaving all personal belongings behind. Most of these villages have now been destroyed [...] "

According to the 1986 radiation map of radioactively contaminated territories in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, the exposure to 137 Cs in the region around Shurawitchy is between 5 and 15 Ci / km².

literature

  • Konrad Jarausch , Klaus Jochen Arnold : The silent death ...: Field post letters from Konrad Jarausch from Poland and Russia 1939–1942. Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2008, ISBN 3-506-76546-9 (restricted view, books.google.de ).
  • Quarterly issues for contemporary history. 49th year 2001, p. 150 ( ifz-muenchen.de PDF; 7.6 MB).
  • Arnold Weers: Journey to Schurawitschi - expedition to the grave of a soldier from Riepe who was killed in the war - and to a country that seems so strange. In: Ostfrisischen Nachrichten (introduction on April 5, 2007, parts 1–4 on April 7, 21, 28 and May 5, 2007, address: belarus-international.eu ).
  • Christian Hartmann: Mass Death or Mass Destruction? Soviet prisoners of war in "Operation Barbarossa". From the diary of a German camp commandant. In: Christian Hartmann, Johannes Hürter, Peter Lieb, Dieter Pohl: The German War in the East 1941–1944: Facets of Crossing Borders (= sources and representations on contemporary history. Volume 76). De Gruyter, R. Oldenbourg 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-70735-9 , doi: 10.1524 / 9783486707359 , pp 307-368, here p 358 ( Churawitschi , degruyter.com ).
  • Highly exposed children in Belarus. urn : nbn: de: 0221-201004141459 ( doris.bfs.de PDF).

Web links

Commons : Historical pictures from Shurawitschi  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to this information, for example, on August 19, 1941, Oberwachtmeister Otto Gronenberg b. Buried with military honors on February 10, 1911 in Klein Dexen, in row 4, grave 14, after a shot in the stomach and subsequent general blood poisoning.
  2. ↑ 2007 - Shurawitschi. Retrieved February 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Dieter Schröder-Wrobel: When someone goes on a journey…. (Report on a trip to Rogachev, April 26–10, 2003 ) p. 3 rogachev.de .
  4. ↑ chernobyl.info ( Memento of July 22, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Classification of the contaminated areas.

Coordinates: 53 ° 15 '  N , 30 ° 33'  E