Republican Center for Organization of Medical Response

Today, March 22, marks 82 years since the tragedy that occurred in the village of Khatyn in the Logoysk district. Khatyn became one of the most sorrowful pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War for the Belarusian people. On this day 82 years ago, a village of 26 households disappeared from the territory of Belarus. 149 of its residents, mostly women, the elderly, and children (75 of them under 16 years old), were burned alive by the Nazis.

In memory of the hundreds of Belarusian villages destroyed during the Great Patriotic War and the enormous contribution of the Belarusian people, who made countless sacrifices for the sake of Victory, the Khatyn Memorial Complex was opened in 1969 on the site of the burned village. On its territory lies the world's only "Cemetery of Villages."

The tragedy of Khatyn is not an accidental episode of the war, but one of thousands of facts testifying to the deliberate policy of genocide by Nazi Germany against the population of Belarus. The Khatyn Memorial Complex is a monument to all the burned villages of Belarus and a symbol of national memory. This pain lives on in our hearts. We remember!