In white metal with bronze-colored coating, measures 70 mm across. The obverse shows a bas-relief of the two most prominent monuments of the Khatyn Memorial: "The Unconquered Man" sculpture and two of the bell towers. The inscription, running around the perimeter of the obverse reads, in Belorussian, "The world for centuries has not seen such horrors on our land". The name of the village is at the foot of the monument.

The reverse shows one of the twenty-six bells of Khatyn, immersed in flames.

In very good condition. The coating shows mild wear to the high points of the art

In white metal with bronze-colored coating, measures 70 mm across. The obverse shows a bas-relief of the two most prominent monuments of the Khatyn Memorial: "The Unconquered Man" sculpture and two of the bell towers. The inscription, running around the perimeter of the obverse reads, in Belorussian, "The world for centuries has not seen such horrors on our land". The name of the village is at the foot of the monument.

The reverse shows one of the twenty-six bells of Khatyn, immersed in flames.

In very good condition. The coating shows mild wear to the high points of the artwork while the recessed areas have retained the coating well, showing only tiny contact points and micro scratches.

While being only one of at least 185 Belorussian villages burned to the ground together with their inhabitants in WW2, Khatyn and its memorial symbolize all of them. On 22 March 1943, almost the entire population of the village (149 people, mostly women and children) were herded into a barn by the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118, comprised of primarily Ukrainian and Belorussian collaborators, and assisted by the Dirlewanger Waffen-SS special battalion, and set the barn on fire. It was done in retaliation for an attack of partisans on German troops. The entire village was then torched.

Only one survived, Yuzif Kaminskiy, the village blacksmith. As the history is told, he managed to escape from the burning barn wounded and burned but alive, and found his son Adam, only to see him die in his arms from burns and a stab wound. He is the man in the 19-foot-tall bronze statue at the entrance to the memorial, holding his son.

Twenty-six low frames were erected in place of the houses burned during the massacre. Small bell towers rise in the middle of each frame, resembling stove chimneys. Bells at the top of each tower toll every few seconds in memory of the hundreds of thousands Belorussian civilian deaths during the war.

Please note that the penny in our photo is for size reference.
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