Презентация к уроку Khatyn lesson

What date is it today?

What is special about today’s date?

On March 22, 1943 the group of fascists had surrounded the village Khatyn. All the inhabitants of Khatyn – women, old men and children – were driven to a shed and burnt.

And now let’s visit this Belarusian village that became a symbol of sorrow, heroism and inexorability of Soviet people in their war against fascist aggressors.

View of the memorial’s central part

STEP 1

At the centre of the complex stands an astonishing 6m bronze statue called “The Unconquered Man” ( «Скульптура непокорённого человека» ) -

a tribute

to Iosif Kaminsky and his son.

Iosif Kaminsky was the only person from the adult inhabitants who had rescued. He laid near the body of his son for a long time and was covered with wounds and burns. Only after 2 days people picked him up, hid and cured him.

The sculptor Sergey Selikhanov saw in I.Kaminsky the prototype of his sculpture of the man who goes along the burnt ground of Khatyn, carrying the body of his son in his hands.

Step 2

The fiery breach in black marble slabs flares there eternally.

Through this fiery breach people tried to escape.

The symbolic roof of the shed

These marble slabs are stacked as a two-level fallen roof just there where people of Khatyn were burnt alive.

Step 3

«Люди добрые, помните:

любили мы жизнь, и Родину нашу, и вас, дорогие.

Мы сгорели живыми в огне.

Наша просьба ко всем:

пусть скорбь и печаль обернуться в мужество ваше и силу,

чтобы смогли вы утвердить навечно мир и покой на земле.

Чтобы отныне нигде и никогда в вихре пожаров жизнь не умирала!»

There are words of Khatyn’s dead people to living people on the white marble wall.

Step 4

On the place of each 26 houses are the bottom parts of framework made of concrete beams.

a bell

each representing

a burned home

symbolic chimneys

a memorial plate

concrete beams

a stone

gate

A memorial plate

There are names of people who were burnt alive.

The bells ring every 30 seconds

Step 5

Symbolic wells

There are 4 wells in Khatyn.

Step 6

Step 6

Cemetery of villages burnt with their inhabitants

by fascists.

Urns with soil of burnt villages.

Names of 296 Belarusian villages burnt together with the inhabitants are written on strict squares of monuments.

Step 7

Trees

June 30, 1969, people had buried all Belarusian burnt villages symbolically .

of life

Step 8

The memorial wall was constructed in memory of prisoners

of the camps of death.

Memorial plates with the names of the camps of death created by the fascists in the territory of our republic during the war and numbers are placed in niches.

Step 9

The sacred flame is burning under the three birches and reminds people each fourth victim of our republic.

The three trees symbolize

the living.

The flame represents the missing.

Let’s have a rest.

Let’s check what you have learned?

1. Agree or disagree with the following statements

using the following phrases

I (don’t) think that this statement is true…

I (don’t) agree with this statement…

I suppose, there is a mistake here…

I completely agree with this statement.

Agree or disagree:

1. On March 21, 1943 the group of fascists had surrounded the village Khatyn.

2. All the inhabitants of Khatyn – women, old men and children – were driven to the forest and burnt.

3. Only after 2 days people picked Iosif Kaminsky up, hid and cured him.

4. The only person from the adult inhabitants who had rescued was Sergey Selikhanov.

5. The sacred flame is burning under the 3 birches and reminds people each 4th victim of our republic.

Answer the questions:

1. Who was Iosif Kaminsky?

2. What do you know about Sergey Selikhanov?

3. What do chimneys symbolize?

4. How did people save Kaminsky’s life?

5. What do the open stone gates symbolize?

6. How does the memorial complex look like?

7. What is written on the plates?

Fill in the table with the events from the presentation

years of victory over fascism

65

wells in the village

4

Each fourth

died during the II World War

26

houses were in the village

June 30,1969

people had buried all Belarusian burnt villages symbolically

The bells ring every 30 seconds

30

On March 22, 1943 the group of fascists had surrounded the village Khatyn.

March 22,1943

died during the II World War

2,230,000

296

Names of 296 Belarusian villages burnt together with the inhabitants are written on strict squares of monuments.

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