mass grave there are about 500 names of soldiers and officers who liberated these lands and not a single name of a civilian, but the locals knew that their relatives were also buried in the mass grave, so they brought flowers to the memorial not only in memory of the liberators, but in memory of their relatives his sons were sunbathed and his wife, and he jumped out, father, when he came to utvala, when you say that you were looking for a grave, it was hard for him there. before the war, there were 34 houses in ale and 168 people lived, the figure is inaccurate, although it is found in many information sources. reporting documents from either the village or district councils for 1940 have not yet been found, there is only data from an earlier period confirming exact lists of the number at the beginning of forty-one, there are no families, there is only a date, well, numbers. over the course of several years

, the number of residents could change, because children were born in families, old people died, with the beginning of the great patriotic war, men went to the front, so it is possible to say how many people lived in ala, but it is known for sure that during the occupation the village became a salvation for thousands of people, it was located deep in the forest, it was extremely difficult to get here, except for the swamps, the alla river, which gave the name of the village, in the winter, when the tired...

southern belarus was already living a peaceful life, but here the front stopped. the swampy forest area became a serious obstacle for the army of the third reich. the wehrmacht gives the order. by this time, many settlements are building a powerful defense line. for this purpose in nearby. houses are dismantled in villages, some settlements are completely destroyed, often with civilians around terrible battles, the earth was shaking from shells , soviet troops were conquering every meter, people were waiting for liberation, because back on november 27 , 1943, the red army entered the shatilki, today this is the city of svetlogorsk, it is located 20 kilometers from aly. many residents of the surrounding villages went into the forests, despite...

on january 8, 1944 , the kalinkovichi-mozor offensive operation began under the command of rakosovsky, the 61st and 65th soviet armies were opposed by the army group center of the second german army. january 11 the yelsky region was liberated, the front was approaching the stake, the village in the front line was still surrounded by german troops. the cousin says: come with me to the village, let’s talk, there are a lot of people there. they walked, you see, they literally spent one night there, maybe they even lived there, on the fourteenth of january, on the day of the tragedy of the village of aly , the regional center of the polesie region, the city of mozer and the city of kalinkovich, which was located 10 km there, were liberated. ala was destroyed 2 weeks before the liberation of this territory by the reds army, january 14, 1944. the first of the red army soldiers to come to the village were those who served. in

the seventy-fourth military construction detachment under the forty-eighth army and before the general offensive, they were laying roads, when they entered the rampart and it seemed like little lakes were shining there, there, there, when... they approached, it was frozen human fat. among the fighters of this unit was the future writer sergei galitsin. 40 years after the tragedy, he will write an essay: the apple tree branch of belarus, where he will describe what the valais soldiers saw. fighters having tied up with handkerchiefs or rags, noses and mouths began to pull out the remains from all the underground floors in a row, blackened bones and charred scraps of clothing were mixed up. it was impossible to count how many corpses were discovered.

at the chatyrohs in the white camps they stop us, in general they tell us not to go to the alu, there he says ss, pooh-pooh, and we went the other way, why the wehrmacht sent people to the ox, there was probably an order according to which the german soldiers were scouting forest, they looked for old people, women and children, sent them to the deep forest...

under the cover of civilians, it was in their style, they drove people, a grandmother and her family, i don’t know if they wanted them from germany or whether they were taking lazarych. january 1944 became a kind of belarusian stalingrad for the third varykha army. in the polisk swamps, just like on the volga, the wehrmacht had orders that did not

take a step back. hitler’s soldiers could not leave their loyal positions on their own. after a failed attempt to use chemical weapons at the front, nazi germany is implementing a plan for...

which was not even indicated on local maps, today there are more questions than answers, in contrast to khatyn, the chronology

of destruction of which is established by the hour. we reliably know the nazi units that dealt with the villagers ; we can call them executioners. we know practically nothing about the tragedy in ala, where 12 khatynias were destroyed in one day, neither what caused the bloodshed, nor who committed the brutal massacre of an unarmed civilian. population. to date, no one has conducted a serious scientific study. our film is the first fundamental attempt to restore one. 937 great day patriotic war in belarus, january 14, 1944. in a few hours, the nazis killed 1,758 people. this is the official figure included in modern historiography. data basis. the document was dated april 10, 1945, an act of the extraordinary state commission

of the paris region on the atrocities of the nazi invaders, it says, quote. at 8:00 am on january 14 , 1944, a group of german executioners, unknown in number and military unit, burst into the village of ala, where the population was driven away from other settlements of the village councils, blocking the village, set fire and shot people of any age. the corpses of those executed were burned, citizens were caught, thrown alive into the carriage, during the day of the atrocities committed in the village of alla on january 14, 1944 , only 1,758 people were shot and burned alive, of which 100 were men, 508 women, 950 children , 200 old people, i’m catching up let's sleep in memory, and the flock will be so grieved.

after destruction, we didn’t have any of them, or at least we don’t have them. there is another document marked "top secret". but it dates from march 1944 and is stored in the national archives of belarus. a memorandum addressed to the secretary of the polesie regional committee of the communist party of belarus levitsky, the state of settlements liberated from the german occupiers for the second time. we read in it. the village of ala, consisting of thirty courtyards, was completely surrounded by the german occupiers, both residential and commercial. 20 people were evacuated from the population,

1200 people were brutally tortured by german monsters, in addition, 500 people were imprisoned alive, in total in the village of alla by the occupiers 1,700 people were killed; after the war , investigative agencies looked for people who miraculously survived the aly fire; their memories are an argument against the distortion of historical truth. punitive detachments raided the village of ola, surrounded them, drove everyone out into the street, lined them up in a column, then began to split them into groups of about 50-70 people and lock them up in the building. afterwards, when everyone was locked up, they opened fire on the buildings, began throwing grenades at the windows and setting houses on fire. to the side where i was with my family, i refused german machine gun. at this time we broke through the door of the construction site and began to run. my family and relatives died, nine souls. on january 14, in

the village of alla, the germans gathered up to 2.0 civilians, children, women, old people, they locked everyone in barns in riga and began to shoot. i, with my family, five children and a husband, ended up in the same barn with other residents. all 30 people who were in the stable were shot, including my relatives . me and the child vitaly, who was wounded. at the moment of the execution, i sat down my husband and children standing in front of me fell on me , under the corpses i remained alive, then with my wounded child... i ran away, after the execution the village was burned down, whoever was nearby, so they said, that the lid was worthy of people, they opened the doors, they say , one grenade in the other side, another grenade, three chuka, three grenades

thrown into the barn, oh, how it’s already become a dog and a roof.

run into the forest, and the germans chained up a shepherd dog, and he was the youngest, the last one runs, the shepherd dog catches up with him, jumps up, pushes him in the back, he falls, plunges into the snow, is caught up, he wants to live, he runs further , again the dog catches up with him, again he falls into the snow, and so

, somewhat differently, he reached the forest, he remained alive, because the german simply did not shoot, he regretted that he would shoot his shepherd, the nazis did not they forgave the murder of a soldier and carried out massacres against the residents of aly. just one nuance: punitive styles instantly, in a few hours, as it was in...

which are stored in german archives, in the same freiburg, in the military archive, it is quite possible that there are materials in the documents, the problem maybe it’s also that this happened just during the period, well, literally on the eve of operation bagration, there was a short period there, they later, well, during the retreat , destroyed many documents ; today it is possible to reconstruct the events that took place in ale on january 14, 1944 only from memories indirect witnesses. those who were in the forest near the village, and the children of those who survived the fire. they began to drive people away, people began to scream, then there was a big fire, they began to burn people, the smell of it, the girls, in general, he said, well, it hit them hard, they said that even

the cries of the children echoed through the forest, here were the people in the forest, who were hiding, and also told what he was saying:

on the outskirts of the village behind the houses there was a large collective farm barn, it became a mass grave for most people, old people, women and children were driven here, many were in grave condition clothes and barefoot. during the punitive action, the nazis provided entertainment for the officer; he watched from the sidelines as they drove people to kill, but apparently there was not enough drama. at his command, the guards stepped aside and he threw a grenade into the crowd of victims. explosions amused him screams.

well, as for the 707th division, it was seen in numerous crimes on the territory of belarus and ala itself is not the only place where its subordinates committed atrocities, soldiers of the forty-eighth army of the belarusian front, who came to ... the sawmills in the alley discovered mountains of ash corpses they buried the dead children and stark women in a huge pit grave all together, and a few days later the command of the forty-eighth

soviet army turned to the officers and soldiers of two german divisions who destroyed the alu together with people. leaflets in german were dropped in information mines; they were found during the construction of the memorial. soldiers, officers 45 and 707. roosevelt, stalin and churchel, stated that the responsibility of hitler's fascists for the unthinkable cruelty committed was that the perpetrators would be found under any circumstances , even at the ends of the earth, and brought to justice. they appeared in the dock.

adolf gamon, former military commandant then 9th infantry army and major general of the cities of orel, bryansk and babruisk, chief babruisky fortified area. during the babrui offensive operation, during. participants in the parade of the defeated or the march of captured germans, which took place on july 17, 1944.

lemler was put on trial in bryansk, he went down in history under the name bryansk nuremberg. one of the eyewitnesses, artyom ustimenko, acted as a witness at the trial. on january 14, 1900 in the morning, they began to set fire to the village, the population was driven into courtyards and shot with machine guns, and grenades were thrown at people. in my yard , up to 100 people were shot, civilians, including my relatives, the germans threw all those killed into the fire, when my house began to burn, i managed to escape into the forest. on december 30th of this year at 11 am in bryansk the verdict was announced. stein was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor, bernhard hammann lemr to death by hanging. the verdict was not

subject to appeal. just a few hours later it was carried out, the execution took place at 15:00 on the city square of bryansk, years will pass in the only world cemetery of burned villages in khatyn, alla will be immortalized as an unregenerate village, but she returned here life, alla was restored in 1945 , after the victory , men began to return home, vale in...

only in 2014, the gomen regional executive committee removed the status of the village; before that, for 30 years there was a village of alla without a single house without a single bed. at the site of the barn in which people were burned in january 1944, today there are bells: 12 silent , one ringer, the number is not accidental, this is the number of villages whose inhabitants died in ale. and the bells, numb with horror, and the once peaceful life here resemble fruit trees, apple trees of the alla variety, crimson fruits snowy background like drops of blood of dead people, only at the moment of the tragedy because of the blood the ground was not visible, the snow melted from the flames, the blood froze like puddles, on the memorial in

scarlet... we see the names of the dead red army soldiers, but not a single name of a civilian no, we do not know the names of children who were not destined to become adults, women who did not become mothers, and men who never heard the laughter of their sons. research work continues: seven empty steles at the entrance, the place where the names of people shot and burned in the red will be engraved. 1758 taken lives will forever be inscribed in...

remember people, remember us, remember the names of eternal children, we were not destined to become adults, do not let the war happen again.