“Memory of the world”: letters on birch trees will be added to the list of UNESCO’s documentary heritage
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Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine submitted a joint application for the nomination of letters on birch trees to the UNESCO List of Documentary Heritage “Memory of the World”. The National Commission of the Republic of Estonia for UNESCO sent a group request on 28 November.
This was reported by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine.
Letters on birch bark sent from Siberia in 1945-1965 are planned to be added to the list. Also include other personal materials created by political prisoners and deportees. There are a total of 148 documents from 1940 to 1965.
Materials stored in Ukraine were submitted from Ukraine National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, Museums of totalitarian regimes “Territory of Terror” and Ternopil regional local history museum.
| Leaves on birch. Photo: MKIP |
The UNESCO Memory of the World list preserves documentary heritage of world significance. It contains 558 names, 5 of which are related to Ukraine:
- documentary heritage “Collection of Jewish musical folklore (1912 – 1947)”, submitted by Ukraine and included in the List in 2005;
- “Archives of the Radziwills and the Nesvizh library collection“, submitted jointly with Finland, Lithuania, Poland, the Russian Federation and Belarus in 2008, and included in the List in 2009;
- “Act of the Union of Lublin“, submitted by Ukraine together with Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Latvia in 2016, and included in the List in 2017;
- “Documentary heritage related to the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant“, submitted by Ukraine in 2016, and included in the List in 2017;
- “Documentary heritage of Babiny Yar“, included in the List in 2023.
Earlier, on November 22, Ukraine joined the UNESCO World Heritage Committee for the first time. This allows us to realize new possibilities for the implementation of the Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, which was ratified in 1988.
In particular, Ukraine can now include objects in the List of World Heritage, as well as in the List of World Heritage in Danger.
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