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Who does not know one's own past is doomed to live through it again.

The Holocaust research center has been created in Minsk by the joint initiative by the International Educational center in Dortmund and the Union of Byelorussian Jewish NGOs and communities.
The center situated in one of the few houses remained intact in the territory of the Jewish ghetto has been named "Minsk's history atelier". The German Ambassador Helmut Friek, the Israeli Embassy representatives, and former prisoners of Nazi camps participated in the opening ceremonies.
The press service of the German Embassy has announced that the project became reality due to the financing under the German Federal government's "Belarus" assistance program. In the atelier, scientists from the two countries will study the "blank spots" of the past; including the events in Trostenets death camp and Minsk ghetto, where more than 100,000 Jews from Byelorussia and other European countries were exterminated.
The German Ambassador to Byelorussia says that this history atelier has become reality due to the financing under the German Federal government's "Belarus" assistance program. "Who does not know one's own past is doomed to live through it again. This saying popular in the post-war Germany can be supplemented by the history atelier's motto: memory for the sake of common future. I am sure that carrying out of this project will contribute greatly to the reconciliation process and to studying what the generation of our fathers did in Byelorussia", said the Ambassador.

Источник: Sem40.ru