Barys Rahula

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Jazep Sažyč and Barys Rahula (right) between 1942 and 1944.

Barys Rahula (

Belarusian auxiliary police unit Schutzmannschaft Battalion 68.[1] After the war he studied medicine in the West and became a doctor in Canada.[2]

Life

Barys Rahula was born near

POW, but in 1940 escaped from German prison to West Belarus occupied by the Soviets. In Belarus, he got arrested by the NKVD but managed to escape from prison in the first days after Germany's attack on the USSR.[4]

Under German occupation, Rahula commanded Schutzmannschaft Battalion 68, taking part in anti-partisan actions against Polish and Soviet partisans.

Belarusian Home Defense (BKA) and did not become a Belarusian unit independent of German rule.[5]
He left Belarus with the German army ahead of the Soviet advance.

After the war, Barys Rahula studied Medicine at the

Chernobyl Disaster
, Rahula organized fund raising to support victims of the catastrophe. He died in 2005.

References

  1. ^ a b c d Grzybowski 2021, p. 182.
  2. NYU Langone
    official website
  3. ^ "Успамін пра Барыса Рагулю". Retrieved Mar 27, 2023.
  4. ^ У Канадзе памёр Барыс Рагуля at Радыё Свабода 2014 (www.svaboda.org)
  5. ^ Grzybowski 2021, p. 183.

Bibliography

  • Grzybowski, Jerzy (2021). Białoruski ruch niepodległościowy w czasie II wojny światowej (in Polish). Warsaw.
    ISBN 978-83-8229-251-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )

Selected books

  • Беларускае студэнцтва на чужыне (Belarusian Students in the Strange Lands)
  • Жыцьцё пад агнём (Living under Fire)
  • Against the Current

External links

Media related to Barys Rahula at Wikimedia Commons

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