On April 11, the world celebrates the International Day of the Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps. It was installed in memory of the international uprising of prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp, which occurred on April 11, 1945.
More than 260 points on the map of our country during the Second World War were turned into places of mass extermination of people and laboratories for conducting medical experiments. Huge masses of the population became prisoners of Nazi concentration camps and ghettos. The largest among them are Trostenets, the Minsk ghetto, Ozarichi and the Krasny Bereg children’s concentration camp. Also, the Wehrmacht command widely used the practice of using civilian prisoners as cover on the path of the advance of Soviet troops. At the Nuremberg trials in 1946, an international tribunal recognized that the imprisonment of civilians of foreign countries, as well as the forced use of their labor in the interests of Germany, is not only a war crime, but also a crime against humanity.
Work to identify and investigate the crimes of the Nazi invaders, as well as their accomplices, continues to this day. Data exposing the bloody atrocities of the Nazis are recorded in the documents of the criminal case on the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War.
