Information about 700+ dead prisoners of Stalag 352 camp found by BSU student team members
A student team, entitled Memory and Glory named after the first rector of the Belarusian State University Vladimir Picheta, was established at BSU History Faculty, with its members conducting a large-scale work to establish the biographical data of Stalag 352 prisoners
The students were searching and checking information about the prisoners in the camp book. In total, it was possible to establish information about more than 700 dead. The collected material will replenish the national database.
Yegor Podolyak, Deputy Head of BSU’s Department for Educational Work with Youth, noted, “Young people were also engaged in landscaping the graves of university teachers, who died or continued to work during the Great Patriotic War, at the Severnoe (northern) and Vostochnoe (eastern) military cemeteries of Minsk. More than 70 burial places were put in order. Moreover, the students studied the files of Zviazda and Sovetskaya Belorussiya newspapers from 1945 to 1960, finding over 60 materials about the BSU activities in the post-war period.”
This year, 39 student teams were created at BSU, uniting about a thousand students.
