Nazi terror
Belarusians pay tribute to victims of Khatyn massacre on its 80th anniversary
During World War II, on March 22, 1943, Nazi troops and collaborators burned down Khatyn village near Minsk and killed its 149 inhabitants
Yugoslav partisan Lepa Radić executed by Nazis
With the noose around her neck, she cried out: “Long live the Communist Party, and partisans! Fight, people, for your freedom! Do not surrender to the evildoers! I will be killed, but there are those who will avenge me!”
Liberation of Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz by Soviet Army
The camp became a major site of the Nazis’ Final Solution to the Jewish Question, where more than one million Jews, Poles, Romani and Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) were exterminated, many in gas chambers.
Czechs commemorate martyrs of Nazi violence on International Student Day
Czech universities were stormed by the Nazi forces in 1939 and more than 1,200 students were sent to concentration camps