Presidential Library presents documents on genocide of Soviet people during Great Patriotic War

The National Centre for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation has transferred for digitisation to the Presidential Library the materials prepared within the framework of the federal project "No Statute of Limitations". The documents are available on the library's portal from anywhere in the world.

The aim of the project is to preserve the historical truth about the crimes of the Nazis and their accomplices against Soviet civilians during the Great Patriotic War. The Presidential Library's portal contains electronic copies of historical references and documents, photo materials, as well as information about memorials, complexes and monuments related to the facts of genocide of the Soviet people in different regions of Russia.

The project "Without Statute of Limitations" includes materials on the North-Western Federal District, including slides about the Piskaryovsky Memorial Cemetery in St. Petersburg, about mass graves of civilians shot by the Nazis in the Novgorod region and the Republic of Karelia. There are also documents about the concentration camp "Stalag IA Stablak" in Kaliningrad region, concentration camp "Dulag-100" in the Pskov region, and others.

Among the materials on the North Caucasus Federal District are slides and documents on mass murders of civilians and Soviet prisoners of war in the territories of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Territory.

The section on the Southern Federal District includes information on the largest concentration camp "Krasny", located in the Crimea, as well as on fascist concentration camps that operated during the war in the Volgograd and Rostov regions, Adygea, Kalmykia and Sevastopol. Documents on the extermination of children from the orphanage in Yeisk, Krasnodar Territory, are presented.

The largest number of materials is devoted to the Central Federal District. There are historical references, information about memorials, complexes and monuments related to the facts of genocide of the Soviet people in the Moscow, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kaluga, Kursk, Lipetsk, Orel, Smolensk, Tver and Tula regions.

More information about all the materials of the National Centre for Historical Memory under the President of the Russian Federation, prepared within the framework of the project "No Statute of Limitations", is available in the section Hitler's Mass Crimes against Soviet Citizens of the collection Memory of the Great Victory on the Presidential Library's portal.