Welcome, travellers.
Today we`ll visit the place in my country named "Hatyn`" ("hata" means "a house" in belaryssian). On 22.03.1943 it was destroyed by nazi coz local citizens killed some of nazi. 186 inhabitants including old people and kids were burnt alive in their houses by Nazi. Those who weren`t burnt were shooted by Nazi soldiers. Only one person stayed alive. It was an old man.
In 1969 this open air museum was opened for the eternal memory of human cruelty and innocent death of children.
Need to say that a lot of small and big villages were burnt by Nazi and 3/4 of the population of my country was destroyed during the Second World war.
In the memory of those who died to bring the freedom and in memory of my beloved coutry I want to show you this open air museum.
p.s. All photos are mine except the last one.
When you enter, you see this memorable stone with the words about killed people in Khatyn`.
This is the cementary of all villages burnt in Belarus during the WW2. The quantity is more than one hundred. Each stone presents 1 village.
It`s written here on my native language..people died here with the hope for victory ...
Many children died during that time too...
You will always hear the bell ringing in this place.... An endless silent cry for those who died....
p.s. I lost photo with the monument for the one citizen who stayed alive after that tragedy. Here it is.
Comments
Prostomolotova Galina , thanks for the comment. i`m always glad when people through watching and reading start asking the questions and remembering.
Thanks a lot, Honey Bee, for the blog and photos! I've heard about Khatyn since my childhood as well as about other numerous places in different countries which were destroyed by Nazi and millions of innocent people were killed. But I've never been to this place. Now thanks to your photos I feel like I myself have visited it! Very impressive! I know pretty well about the cruelty of Nazi, but now while I'm looking at the photos I again can't believe that HUMANS could do it!!!
And what is more terrible it is going on now...
ali kabosh, thanks:)
HI HONEY BEE
1- Man should learn from the history but still the predominant nations and terrorism groups perform genocides upon the weak ones .
2-The Tatyn open air museum is a witness of the severe history of Nasi and I hope that will enhance citizens to st up effort to build up their nation. 3- My Greetings to you and your great nation .
noaslpl, Estanis, good words but as we see - no actions. Sometimes i`m asking 2 questions:
1) Guess God is a woman coz to live with the mankind you need to have steel nerves. So why are we still alive?
2) how many people must be killed in order to stop this process?
Very poignant blog. Even when we built various monuments to remember the tragic past, to learn from the history, it seemed that we never remember, never learn. We still want to settle our differences with weapons. Sad!
Thanks for sharing again.
The reason I published was the thought that without conclusions from our past we can`t built the future.
It`s a page of history full of sorrows and tears, I don`t want the future to be like that one more time. Pity but it`s turning into it now.... Mankind can`t make the conclusions properly...
And this endless silent cry for those who died will continue non-stop...wake up!!!!!!