The challenges facing the
tourism industry amidst the pandemic are a window of opportunity for
domestic tourism. It is necessary to support domestic travel and
encourage Belarusians and foreigners to see as much of the country as
possible, Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko said at an off-site meeting
to discuss domestic tourism prospects on 13 August, BelTA has learned.
Though British actor Daniel Craig popularized the story of the Bielski partisans in the 2008 film “Defiance,” preserving the history of their heroics in the region where they operated has long been the passion of Belarussian historian Tamara Vershitskaya.
She carried out her mission as the head of The Museum of Jewish Resistance, which she founded in 2007 in the Western Belarusian city of Novogrudok, not far from the Bielski partisans’ forest base.
But the Belarusian Ministry of Culture fired Vershitskaya and her assistant at the start of this month. The terminations, she said, are clearly retribution for her own association with acts of resistance against the ruler of a country some call the last dictatorship in Europe.