Belarussian Folk Hramada

Belarussian People's Harem (white Беларуская Народная Грамада), also known as Hramada, is a Belarusian conspiratorial political group in occupied Belarus during World War II.

In the autumn of 1941, at the initiative of the commander of the Belarusian auxiliary police of the Minsk district, Julian Sakowicz held an illegal conference of prewar partisans of the Belarusian Włościańsko-Robotnicza Hromady. This was used as a training course for field leaders of the Belarusian Self-Help Organization. At the congress, there were 9 activists (including Siargiej Chmara, Wasil Łukaszyk, Ivan Helda, Wasil Wir, Jurek Stasiewicz); They decided to create a strongly conquered Belarusian People's Hump.

The group was active throughout western Belarus, the Bialystok region and the Vilnius region, with stronger centers in Minsk, Pińsk, Brest, Bialystok and Vilnius. Its members were organized into three. Most of them worked in the German occupation administration. In 1942, the Belarusian People's Hromada took over the political establishment of the independent Belarusian People's Partisan Party operating in Polesie. But after some time she lost it. Against the clandestine activities of Hramady, both the Germans and the Soviets were active, but they failed to penetrate the leadership of the party. At the end of June, the members of the group participated in the discussions of the 2nd All-Belarusian Congress in Minsk.

There was a difference in the views of the party in the risky situation of the Red Army. Part wanted to stay in Belarus, hoping for relaxation after the Soviet war, part decided to evacuate to Germany. In Berlin there are, among others. S. Chmara, W. Wir, J. Stasiewicz. At the end of 1944, they formed an organization called "Двупагоня" as a continuation of the Belarusian People's Hollow. It ended its activities at the end of the war.

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