Russian-Belarusian-French memorial to female partisan detachment to open in France

The Russian-Belarusian-French memorial to the memory of the women’s partisan detachment “Rodina” will be opened in France. This was reported at a briefing by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, BelTA reports.

On September 27, a solemn opening ceremony of the Russian-Belarusian-French memorial dedicated to the Soviet women's partisan detachment "Rodina" will be held in Thiel in eastern France. They fought in the French Resistance Movement during World War II. Rodina was formed of 37 Soviet women. They fled from the Eruville concentration camp in Thila, Maria Zakharova said.

The average age of the participants of the partisan detachment was 23-24 years, the youngest was not 16 years old. All of them were taken by the German fascist occupiers from the territory of the Belarusian SSR and the Leningrad region for forced labor in the iron ore mines of the city of Thiel. “The unit conducted intelligence operations, liberated prisoners, captured what we call languages, those who could give information. In October 1944, Homeland commanders Nadezhda Lisovets and Rosalia Zakharovna Fridzon received the rank of lieutenants of the armed forces of the Resistance Movement, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry recalled.

The Belarusian sculptural composition – a dedication to the “Rodina” detachment – was created by the author’s team consisting of Vladimir Slobodchikov, Alexander Finsky, Sergey Logvin, Konstantin Kostyuchenko and Artem Medvedev. The Russian part of the memorial is a sculpture “Partisan” by the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Vladimir Surovtsev.

The monuments donated to the city of Thiel will become key elements of the museum complex created in the former iron ore mines.