Memory of the victims honored in Dalva

On June 19, 1944 the Nazi came to the village of Dalva and burnt all its inhabitants alive. The only one who survived that day was a 13-year-old boy Kolya Girilovich. It was he, who organized the construction of a memorial complex after the war .

The burnt village will never recover, but the memory of it and those whose names are stamped on the plaque will be alive, carefully preserved by the descendants. In 2006 Nikolai Petrovich died, his wife Rimma Igorevna, their children and grandchildren, continued the work of his life.

Dalva is, one of many other Belarusian villages that never rose from the ashes. Thousands of people visit it every year, but it is especially crowded here during these June days, the requiem in Dalva became a holy tradition, which is necessary not for the dead, but for the living, so that the horrors of the war never recurred.