The Resistance Movement in Belgium During World War II: Heroes, Memory, History
During World War II, thousands of people of Russian origin living abroad fought side by side with the peoples of Europe against fascism. They took part in the Resistance movements in France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Italy, and other countries, risking their lives for freedom and human dignity.
This project is dedicated to these heroes — to those whose names are preserved by history, and to those whose memory lives on in family stories, letters, and archives. It also honors Russian anti-fascists who perished in Nazi camps and prisons, as well as Soviet POWs who joined the European Resistance.
Russian heroes of the European Resistance during the Second World War
Online exhibition (RU)
During the Second World War, thousands of Russian émigrés took part in the heroic struggle against fascism and Nazism as members of the Resistance across Europe — in France, Belgium, Yugoslavia, Italy, and beyond.
The exhibition is dedicated to their courage, as well as to the memory of Soviet POWs and Russian anti-fascists who perished in Nazi camps and prisons.
Russian heroes of the Resistance in Belgium
Russian heroes of the Resistance in other countries
Based on archival materials from:
– The Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad (Moscow)
– Russian and international state archives
– Private family collections of compatriots
Curator: Marina Sorokina, Head of the History of the Russian Diaspora Department
Designer: Angelina Fadeeva
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