The requiem rally will be held on March 20 at the memorial complex in memory of the burned villages of the Mogilev region
The rally-requiem "National pain and memory" , dedicated to the memory of the burnt inhabitants of the village of Borki, Kirovsky district, will take place on March 20. The beginning is at 10.00.
The event will be attended by representatives of the executive and representative authorities of the region, Mogilev and Bobruisk, districts, public organizations and associations, youth.
The program includes the laying of wreaths and flowers. The rector of the Holy Intercession Church, Archpriest Dmitry Perviy, will serve the funeral litia for the burnt. Then there will be a service in the chapel in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Seeking the Lost" and a tour of the memorial complex.
In the Borkovsky village club-museum, a presentation is organized about the history of the creation of the memorial "In memory of the burnt villages of the Mogilev region", the reading of the poem "Maryika".
The requiem rally will become part of the large-scale patriotic action "Memory" , timed to coincide with the Day of Commemoration of the Khatyn tragedy, which is taking place throughout the country these days. Residents of the Mogilev region, like all Belarusians, are putting things in order at memorials and monuments to burnt villages.
In our region, during the Great Patriotic War, punishers burned 112 villages in 19 districts. In Belynichsky, Bykhovsky, Glussky, Kirovsky, Klimovichsky, Klichevsky, Kostyukovichsky, Krichevsky, Kruglyansky, Mogilevsky, Mstislavsky, Osipovichsky, Khotimsky, 26 memorial signs have been installed. In addition, on the territory of Bobruisk (1) and Mogilev (3) districts, in the place of burned-down villages, the memory of participants in the resistance and victims of wars is immortalized on the monuments of military graves.
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The opening of the memorial complex in memory of the burnt villages of the Mogilev region on June 20, 2020 became one of the main events of the Mogilev region in the year of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 78th anniversary of the tragedy in the village of Borki, when during one of the largest punitive operations in one day, the Nazis shot and burned more than 2 thousand civilians. These events formed the basis of one of the plot lines of the feature film "Come and See" directed by Elem Klimov.
In memory of the inhabitants of the village of Borki and the burned down villages of the region in 1964, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the liberation of the Kirov region from the Nazi invaders, a monument-sculpture of a warrior and a girl laying flowers was erected. 62 years after the tragedy, a chapel was erected in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God “Seeking the Lost”. A little later, a wall of memory of the burned villages of the Mogilev region was installed.
In 2019, the regional leadership decided to reconstruct memorial signs in this village and create a memorial on this site, revealing and showing in full measure all the atrocities of Nazism.
The draft design of the memorial in the village of Borki "In memory of the burned villages of the Mogilev region" was developed by a group of young sculptors and architects. In accordance with the project, elements of the complex appeared, personifying the horror of that tragedy: a street with fragments of burnt walls of houses that show the places where they once stood. The things left in them symbolize the suddenly interrupted peaceful life and defenselessness in the face of inhuman cruelty. On the charred logs there are testimonies of people who survived that monstrous tragedy.
The following sculptural compositions have been installed: "Belarus - a grieving mother", which is a figure of a grieving mother frozen by an empty cradle, deprived of children and a future by punishers; and "The Well" - a place of mourning and memory of tortured children thrown into the wells alive.
At the end of this impromptu street, a stone was installed with a message to descendants and a park was planted, embodying life.
Written by: mogilev-region.gov.by/