Memorial to children in Dziatlava, Memorial monument in Dzyatlava, Belarus.

The Memorial to Children in Dziatlava, called "Dzieci likholetia" (Children of the Hard Years), stands on the town cemetery. Two stelae form a passage to the children's graves: the left bears bronze figures of children clinging to a woman, the right a row of inscriptions. Behind them lie 76 children's graves in four rows, each granite slab marked with a five-pointed star and three flames.

The memorial was unveiled in 1988 during an international gathering of former inmates of the Dziatlava orphanage, held under the motto "Children of war against war". It commemorates more than 70 children from Leningrad, the Baltic states, Belarus, Smolensk and Oryol regions, and the Novoelnya pioneer camp, who died of hunger and epidemics in 1943–1944. The orphanage head Valentina Kepp, who died in 1945, is buried beside them.

The memorial's name, "Children of Hard Times", refers to the orphans of the Dziatlava shelter. Its central inscription states that more than 70 children from Leningrad, the Baltics, Belarus, Smolensk and Oryol regions, and from the Novoelnya pioneer camp, died of hunger and epidemics in 1943–1944. Only 14 of the 76 graves bear a name and age, because many children did not know their surnames.

The memorial stands on the town cemetery in Dzyatlava, Grodno region. Two stelae form a passage leading to the children's graves, arranged in four rows of 76; the grave of orphanage head Valentina Kepp, who died in 1945, is here too. Most slabs are nameless, with names and ages given for only 14 children.

Most of the 76 graves in four rows are nameless: many children did not know their own surnames, so only 14 granite slabs record a name and age. Each slab carries a five-pointed star with three flames, the symbol of the pioneer organisation.