On June 17, 1934, Polish occupiers established the Bereza Kartuska concentration camp

On June 17, 1934, Polish occupiers established the Bereza Kartuska concentration camp.

From 1934 to September 1939, a concentration camp was located in the town of Bereza Kartuska (today Bereza, Brest Region), where people from Western Belarus, Western Ukraine, and Poland who opposed Polish authorities were imprisoned.

Between 8,000 and 10,000 people passed through the camp. Prisoners were starved and held in inhumane conditions. They were forced to crawl over broken bricks, scraping their elbows and knees until they bled ('Bloody Path'), jump like frogs or walk like ducks, and carry out all commands at a run.

On September 17, 1939, the day of the reunification of Western and Eastern Belarus, the camp ceased to exist. In 1962, a memorial was erected on its site in memory of the victims. In 2021, the monument was reconstructed and a museum was created.