Belarusian writer and Nobel Prize Winner Sviatlana Alexievich made a scandalous statement about the treatment of Poles towards Jews during the World War II.
“And you know what Poland did with the Jews… There are different times, and today people living in Latvia, are they responsible for what their parents did? In the highest sense they are! One of my journalist friends in Poland wrote what the Poles did with the Jews. Poles had the worst attitude towards the Jews. The priests said in their sermons, “Kill the Jew!” said Sviatlana Alexievich.
Sviatlana Alexievich also said, that punishers who worked in the territory of Belarus, they were all from Ukraine. “Moreover, in Lithuania, Latvia, Jews were being killed even before the Germans came. But it also happened in Ukraine.”
The video of Svetlana Alexievich’s words during her speech in New York got on the Internet, Belsat informs.
Polish Foreign Ministry condemned her statement, saying that “such kind of statements are not based n facts and are highly unfair and […] inflict damage on the Polish people”. The polish Ministry emphasizes that thousands of Poles, including priests, were risking their lives to save Jews during the German occupation.
The Belarus Committee of ICOMOS announces the collection of cases on the effectiveness of the State List of Historical and Cultural Values as a tool of the safeguarding the cultural monuments.
On March 27-28, the Belarus ICOMOS and the EuroBelarus held an online expert workshop on expanding opportunities for community participation in the governance of historical and cultural heritage.
It is impossible to change life in cities just in three years (the timeline of the “Agenda 50” campaign implementation). But changing the structure of relationships in local communities is possible.
"Specificity is different, but the priority is general." In Valożyn, a local strategy for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed.
The campaign "Agenda 50" was summed up in Ščučyn, and a local action plan for the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed there.
The regional center has become the second city in Belarus where the local plan for the implementation of the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was signed.
Representatives of the campaign “Agenda 50” from five pilot cities discussed achievements in creating local agendas for implementing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
It is noteworthy that out of the five pilot cities, Stoubcy was the last to join the campaign “Agenda 50”, but the first one to complete the preparation of the local agenda.
On May 28, the city hosted a presentation of the results of the project "Equal to Equal" which was dedicated to monitoring the barrier-free environment in the city.
On March 3, members of the campaign "Agenda 50" from different Belarusian cities met in Minsk. The campaign is aimed at the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
In Stolin, social organizations and local authorities are implementing a project aimed at independent living of persons with disabilities, and creating local agenda for the district.
He said Belarus would likely face economic tightening not only as a result of the coronavirus pandemic but also a Russian trade oil crisis that worsened this past winter.
In his report, philosopher Gintautas Mažeikis discusses several concepts that have been a part of the European social and philosophical thought for quite a time.
It is impossible to change life in cities just in three years (the timeline of the “Agenda 50” campaign implementation). But changing the structure of relationships in local communities is possible.