Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library presented the film "Library Front: 1941-1945" on May 27.
The film shows the activities of the central national libraries of the USSR during the Great Patriotic War in the occupied territories, on the front line and in the rear. Viewers will learn about the terrible losses of the Belarusian library system.
The filmmakers managed to put together previously unknown materials. Diaries, letters, telegrams, eyewitness accounts, official documents, photographs, drawings, documentary chronicles, postcards, video materials (shots from archives and on-the-scene coverage), articles from newspapers and magazines, monographs served as the basis.
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