World History: Exhibition in Moscow dedicated to casualties of burnt villages

On September 28 2011 the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War on Poklonnaya Hill, Moscow is launching a historical and documentary exhibition “Kalište. Yesterday and today” from the Slovak National Uprising Museum (Banská Bystrica).

The exhibition is dedicated to the tragedy of Kalište village, one of 90 Slovakian settlements which were burnt down by Nazis during repressions of participants of Resistance and partisan movements during World War II.

Today the property of national culture “Kalište” is under the control of Slovak National Uprising Museum. Photographs, copies of documents, maps shed light on the tragic history of Kalište village that is inseparably linked with the history of the Slovak National Uprising of 1944.

Along with materials presented by Slovakia on show go exhibits from the collection of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War, which tell about the assistance rendered by the Soviet Union to uprising participants.