Memory of the world: The exhibition “White rose” opened in Tashkent

The Russian-German exhibition “White Rose”, telling of the student resistance to Hitler regime in 1942-1943, opened on November 20 on the territory of the Holy Dormition Cathedral of Tashkent and Uzbekistan Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The exhibition tells of the group of German medical students, organized by the native of Orenburg Alexander Schmorell. In 1942 a student of medicine, Alexander Schmorell together with his friend Hans Schol started writing and delivering anti-Hitler leaflets. Now known to each European schoolboy the group of Resistance “White Rose” was exposed in February 1943, its participants were convicted during six processes of Nazi court and executed by guillotine. In February 2012 the ROC abroad canonized Schmorell (Alexander Munich).

The exhibition, which lasts for a month, is organized by the Munich Fund “White Rose”, by the Orenburg Charity Fund “Eurasia”, the representative office Rossotrudnichestvo, in Uzbekistan with the support of the Tashkent and Uzbekistan dioceses of the ROC, the embassies of the RF in Germany and Uzbekistan.

The exposition, which since 1999 visited more than 20 cities of the CIS and Europe, presents unique materials, telling of the life of Germany of the Nazi time, the fate of participants of the group, who gave their lives in the struggle against fascism, on the presence of anti-fascist students on the Eastern front, on fate trials of “White Rose”. As part of the exhibition opening were shown materials of the TV Channel “Star” on the activity of the anti-fascist group by Schmorell.