Exhibitions (1970er, 2011, 2014)

... in the 1970s by school students in Vjaliki Trascjanec

A part of the Trascjanec exhibition in Vjaliki Trascjanec

After the crimes of the National Socialists in Maly Trascjanec were increasingly included in the collective memory in Belarus through the erection of individual memorials in the 1960s, an exhibition was prepared by schoolchildren from the neighboring village of Vjaliki Trascjanec in the 1970s. The exhibition can still be seen in the school today. It is based on the results of investigations by the Extraordinary State Commission of the Soviet Union (ČGK) from July 1944.¹ Part of the exhibition is entitled "No one is forgotten – nothing is forgotten" and is based, among other things, on conversations with contemporary witnesses.

... 2011 by students in Berlin

Due to the oblivion and suppression, it remained quiet in Germany for a long time with Maly Trascjanec as one of the largest Nazi extermination sites on the territory of the former Soviet Union. In the course of intensifying international cooperation, students at the Humboldt University in Berlin developed the traveling exhibition “Berlin-Minsk. Unforgotten Life Stories". It opened in April 2011. In addition to six life stories of Berlin Jews who were deported to Minsk and Maly Trascjanec, it also shows two panels with Belarusian victim biographies. The project was translated into Russian a year later and then shown at the Minsk History Workshop. It represents a successful contribution to the German-Belarusian historical reappraisal and became part of the educational work in Minsk and the surrounding area.²

... 2014-2016 as a German-Belarusian pilot project

An important milestone in the international commemoration of the Maly Trascjanec extermination site is the traveling exhibition “Maly Trascjanec extermination site. History and Remembrance". The German-Belarusian pilot project began parallel to the expansion of the Trascjanec memorial complex (2015-2019). The cooperation of an international advisory board with representatives of museums, educational institutions and historians from Belarus, Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic as well as the financial support of the German Foreign Office made the international project possible. The primary goal is to "anchor Maly Trascjanec in the public perception as a European place of crime and remembrance."³ The primary addressees are in particular schoolchildren,

In addition to the introductory sections on Nazi terror policy and the war of extermination against the Soviet Union, the focus of the exhibition is on the victims of Maly Trascjanec and on processing and remembering the extermination site in the Soviet, Belarusian and German culture.⁴

The traveling exhibition on the 75th anniversary of the deportation of around 1,000 Hamburg Jews to Minsk was opened on November 8, 2016 in the St. Catherine's Main Church in Hamburg. Subsequently, the exhibition was shown in Germany, mainly in the cities from which Jews were deported to Minsk, as well as in Vienna and in some places in Belarus.⁵ According to the Belarusian historian Dr. Aliaksandr Dalhouski, the work on the exhibition showed once again: on the one hand, biographical portraits of the victims are missing, on the other hand, numerous materials are still available and thus the basis for further research is present.⁶