Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus

The Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus (Belarusian: Віртуальны музей савецкіх рэпрэсій у Беларусі, romanized: Virtualny muzej saveckich represij u Biełarusi) is a non-commercial project of oral history from historians and other scientists from Belarus.

The campaign began meeting with former prisoners of camps, record their memories, and collect materials on the subject of repression.

[2] In 2012, an independent civic initiative was formed, which began to create a Virtual museum of Soviet repression in Belarus.

The museum operates with an approach of oral history by presenting recordings of inhabitants of Belarus who report on their personal experiences with Repression during the Soviet time.

[4] The content of the exhibition consists of recordings of audio- and video-recollections,[5] photographs, documents, and statistics connected with repression in Belarus.

Photograph from the mid-1930s showing members of the Belarusian Shatila family, whose story is told in the virtual museum.
Example of a military court ruling during Soviet times from 1956 from the virtual museum.
Kurapaty site near Minsk in Belarus .