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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eikmans, post: 853033, member: 24526&quot;]Hi everyone,</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Lately I&#039;ve become in possession of a medal/token with Cyrillic script on it.</p><p>I&#039;ve found it in a abandoned shack in a nearby forest. I live in Flanders so the finding was a bit awkward. After quite a while I found out that the man depicted was the same man as here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatyn_massacre" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatyn_massacre" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatyn_massacre</a></p><p>In the hamlet of Khatyn in Belarus (about 60km north of Minsk) the whole community of about 150 people was burnt alive by German collaborators during WW II, except for this man on the medal Yuzif Kaminsky who survived the tragedy.</p><p>However, i can&#039;t find any more information on the internet about the medal itself.</p><p>I suppose of course it&#039;s a commemorative medal, but because the language is Belarussian/Byelorussian/...(i&#039;ve tried several things) i&#039;m not able to find a translating tool that can give me any translation of what is says on the edges.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Does somebody have a clue if it&#039;s very recent or rather from the 40&#039;s? It&#039;s still in a very good condition. It&#039;s not iron, nor it is gold unfortunately <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> can&#039;t really figure it out actually..just alloy.</p><p>Furthermore a translation would be great too. (I took an extra greyscale scan too to make the reading more easy, <a href="http://www.mypicx.com/04052010/Khatyn/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mypicx.com/04052010/Khatyn/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mypicx.com/04052010/Khatyn/</a> for a larger pic)</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Have a fine week,</p><p>Eikmans[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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