23 June 2023
June 22, 2023 in the Republic of Belarus is the Day of National Remembrance of the victims of the Great Patriotic War and the genocide of the Belarusian people
During the war, according to archival documents, 151,421 people died in the cities and rural areas of the Vitebsk region,
▪️ 68,934 people were driven into German slavery,
▪️ 92,891 people were killed in POW camps.
▪️ More than 63 thousand houses were destroyed and burned in rural areas.
The population of the region in the post-war period was only 650 thousand people, while before the war there were more than a million people.
▪️In the villages, the number of able-bodied people has halved.
We remember!