Worth a Detour
Khatyn Memorial
The memorial village where a bell tolls every 30 seconds for the 149 villagers burned alive in 1943.
US travel advisory: Level 4, Do Not Travel · checked 2026-11-03- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Free; paid for the museum
- Time Needed
- 1½ hours
- Address
- Khatyn Memorial, Lahoysk districtDirections
- Getting There
- About 1 hour by car or tour north of Minsk.
Why Go
On March 22, 1943, German and collaborating troops herded the people of Khatyn into a barn and set it on fire. The memorial, opened in 1969, marks each house with a chimney and a bell, and its Cemetery of Villages holds soil from 185 other villages destroyed in the same way and never rebuilt.
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