MOSCOW, April 11 (RIA Novosti) - The exhibit dedicated to prisoners of the Third Reich opened in the State Museum of Modern Russian History Monday.

The exposition includes unique archive documents, photographs and the personal belongings of former Nazi concentration and labor camp inmates.

“This exhibition is a tribute to memory. For the first time it shows inmates’ entire, mournful experience, from the moment they were put in the camps to the moment of returning home and passing filtration,” Vladimir Tarasov, deputy head of the Federal Archive Agency, said at a press conference.  

“Many new documents have been declassified and new layers of additional studies from this period have been exposed in recent years,” he said.

The exhibit is one of many on a list of events to celebrate VE-Day that were approved by President Vladimir Putin.

The event is being organized by the FGU Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation Foundation, the Federal Archive Agency, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the international historical-education and human rights organization Memorial and the charity Duty of Conscience.