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Architects invited to submit designs for Nazi death camp memorial on Minsk’s outskirts

The Minsk City Executive Committee has invited architects to submit proposed designs for a memorial at the site of the Trastsyanets Nazi death camp on the outskirts of Minsk.

The city authorities will pick “the most expressive, precise and laconic” of the designs, Alyaksandr Andronchyk, a departmental chief at the executive committee, told reporters in Minsk on July 29.

“The design of the future memorial should reflect the tragic nature of those events in its entirety,” he said.

The designs will be accepted between July 27 and August 7 and the winner is to be named on October 22 at the latest.

Among the more than 200,000 people executed by the Nazis at the camp were civilians, including both Minsk residents and West Europeans, members of the anti-Nazi underground resistance and guerillas, as well as Soviet prisoners of war.

A museum also is expected to be opened at the site, which is projected to be annexed into Minsk’s limits within the next two decades. //BelaPAN