ONLINE exhibition: The Resistance Movement in Belgium During World War II: Heroes, Memory, History (RU)

RusHouse2025-05-11T20:32:02+02:00April 25th, 2025|Categories: Event, Exhibition, History and Memory, History Club, Online, Victory80, With Russian Roots|Tags: Chafroff, Great Patriotic War, History Club, IIWW, Resistance, Second World War, Victory80, With Russian Roots, WWII|

Welcome to the online exhibition "Russian heroes of the European Resistance during the Second World War". This exhibition is prepared by The Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad (Moscow) and tells the stories of those who risked their lives to resist the Nazi occupation in Belgium and Europe. These individuals, whose names often remain in the shadows, played a decisive role in preserving freedom and humanity in the face of tyranny. Through archival materials and personal stories, we journey back to the years of World War II, remembering the value of freedom and the importance of unity in the fight against [...]

28 03, 2025

Russia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg: Sharing the Memory of the Fight Against Nazism
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Russia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg: Sharing the Memory of the Fight Against Nazism

RusHouse2025-05-23T15:52:28+02:00March 28th, 2025|Categories: Event, Great Patriotic War, History and Memory, History Club, Victory80, With Russian Roots|Tags: 80 years, Anna Molodtsova, Didier Gaillet, Event, Great Patriotic War, History Club, Marina Sorokina, Rene Kolfa, Resistance, Ronin, Second World War, Stepan Reshetnikov, Tunik Maria, Victory Day, Vladimir Ronin, World War II, WWII|

On the eve of the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, we are gathered around a round table to talk about important and dear pages of our common history - about the struggle that the Belgians, the Dutch and the Luxembourgers, together with the peoples of Russia and other republics of the Soviet Union, waged in solidarity against the brown plague of the twentieth century. In spite of thousands of researches on this terrible war and the many decades that separate us from it, new names and new information about long, seemingly forgotten events continue to emerge. [...]

17 05, 2024

A flower laying ceremony was held at the Memorial Cemetery in Ixelles, Brussels
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A flower laying ceremony was held at the Memorial Cemetery in Ixelles, Brussels

RusHouse2025-06-20T16:13:26+02:00May 17th, 2024|Categories: History Club, Our Compatriots, Russian House News|Tags: 8 May, flower ceremony, Great Patriotic War, IIWW, memorial, Second World War, Shafrova-Marutaeva, WWII|

A flower laying ceremony was held at the Ixelles Memorial Cemetery in Brussels on May 8, 2024. There are graves of Russian participants of the resistance movement of Belgium. Among them is the grave of "Belgian Joan of Arc" Marina Alexandrovna Shafrova-Marutayeva.On December 8, 1941 in the center of Brussels еhere was an assassination attempt on a high-ranking Nazi officer Major Kruge, the assailant escaped. The Germans, infuriated by such audacity, took hostages and demanded that the killer surrender. Upon learning of this, Marina confessed to her husband and decided to surrender, but on the way she wounded another German officer. [...]

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