The conference featured researchers from Estonia, Georgia, Belarus, Germany, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Sweden, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Slovenia, and Ukraine. During the conference Prof. Iryna Ramanava has shared the outcomes of her research on the topic of “Memorial sites of the victims of Stalinist terror in Belarus”.
Among other issues, addressed by researchers, were:
- Overview of practices in different countries regarding the locating, researching, memorializing and legally establishing burial sites of executed victims;
- Documentation of mass executions and accessibility to sources in national and institutional archives;
- Localization and investigation of burial sites using archaeological methods;
- Mass graves as memorial sites.
