Virtual museum about the Soviet repression in Belarus

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The Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus ( Belarusian Віртуальны музей савецкіх рэпрэсій у Беларусі ) is a non-commercial, voluntary project in the field of oral history by historians and other scientists from Belarus (Belarus). It is designed as a digital museum and deals exclusively with the period of Soviet repression in Belarus.

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The Virtual Museum on Soviet Repression in Belarus was established in Minsk in 2007. The museum only has an online presence; there is currently no spatial exhibition of the existing materials.

A photo from the 1930s showing the Belarusian Shatila family, whose story is told in the Virtual Museum

Conception of the museum

The museum works with an oral history approach by presenting recordings of contemporary witnesses who tell of their personal fates during the period of political repression in Belarus. As a result, the museum covers a part of the history of Belarus that is not covered by the official historiography in the country.

Example of a military court ruling from 1956 on display in the Virtual Museum

The museum exhibits mainly consist of audio and video recordings, photos, documents and statistics related to the oppression in Belarus. Chronicles and historical articles are also presented.

The museum currently has seven exhibition rooms:

  • Soviet myths
  • Chronology of repression
  • Victim of repression
  • The system of oppression
  • Anti-Soviet Resistance
  • Reparation
  • Places of remembrance

In addition to the narrative interviews, the special features of the museum include interactive maps of the NKVD camps in Belarus and memorials. The museum also offers a search function that can be used to search for victims of Soviet oppression from currently more than 30,000 records.

Kurapaty Memorial near Minsk in Belarus

partner

The museum's partners include the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Belarusian Oral History Archive .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Youtube channel of the Virtual Museum about the Soviet repression in Belarus . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  2. ^ Virtual Museum on Soviet Repression in Belarus (in Belarusian) . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  3. ^ Virtual Museum on Soviet Repression in Belarus (in Russian) . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  4. ^ Virtual Museum on Soviet Repression in Belarus (in Belarusian) . Retrieved May 24, 2015.
  5. ^ Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung: Consultations on the networking of the virtual museum about the Soviet repression in Belarus . Retrieved May 28, 2015.
  6. ↑ Virtual Museum on Soviet Repression in Belarus ( be ) Retrieved May 24, 2015.

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