Memory lesson "Your fellow countrymen are glorious in deeds" held in the Birobidzhan Regional Center of the Presidential Library

May 12, 2021 employees of the Birobidzhan Regional Center of the Presidential Library based on the Sholem Aleichem Birobidzhan Regional Universal Scientific Library gave a memory lesson "Your fellow countrymen are glorious in deeds".

As part of the event, the participants learned about the facts of the military and labor exploits of the inhabitants of the Jewish Autonomous Region during the Great Patriotic War based on the documents of the State Archives of the Jewish Autonomous Region and publications of the newspaper Birobidzhanskaya Zvezda of 1941-1945. The Great Patriotic War was going on for many thousands of kilometers from the banks of the Amur, but Jewish Autonomous Region immediately became part of a military camp, into which the whole country turned.

The Presidential Library’s portal features the large-scale electronic collection Memory of the Great Victory. It includes official documents, photographs and newsreels, wartime newspapers, books, propaganda publications, collections of articles, biographies, testimonies of combatants and home front workers, their personal documents, images of military and labor awards, monuments and memorial complexes. The collection has been formed since 2010 and is constantly being replenished.