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trees bring forth new life in season, the legacy of those brave individuals is breathing new life today. We’re reminded that the Jewish people live on – the evil Nazi monsters failed to stop the Jewish people thriving or the rebirth of the Jewish nation.
Today, Belarus’s significant
Jewish history is still largely
undiscovered. There is a
small section on Jewish life in
the impressive National War
Museum, only a short walk away
from The Pit. Exhibits retell the
conflict on the eastern front in
which one out of three Belarusians died, and explains Belarus’s effective partisan movement. But for a more thorough history specifically
on the Holocaust, there is a small museum called Museum of the History and Culture of Jews of Belarus. And in recent years, more people
from outside Belarus are retracing their Jewish heritage with private tours now available. With Belarus slowly relaxing its strict border controls that have previously limited tourism, more people may take the opportunity to make their own discoveries.
A museum map showing the Nazi concentration camps in Belarus during WWII.
“If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.”
Psalm 139:8
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