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eyewitnesses of the bloody events, they were driven away, they screamed very much, this was such a kryg that i remember to this day, the people who were looking for, arresting and interrogating the executioners of khatyn.

watch right now hundreds of volumes of criminal cases, which reveal details of the tragedy in khatyn, testimonies of victims, profiles of those arrested, reports of interrogations of witnesses the accused

, the forces, and what kind of interesting case is this, that is, all the cases, there are several boxes, well , five or six at most, he said in one succinct word, this is khatyn, when he asked me, do you know who burned khatyn? i told him , of course i know, of course the germans burned down khatyn, he said, no, it wasn’t the germans who burned down khatyn, the first punishers from the ukrainian company of the special ss battalion derlivanger, who were involved in the extermination of the inhabitants of the village of khatyn, were arrested.

i asked her, why don’t they tell us about this anywhere and never? that the executioners of khatyn were ukrainians. during interrogation back in sixty-one, joseph kaminsky, the only adult who managed to escape from the burning barn, said. but ukraine was one of 15 fraternal union republics, a neighbor, a close country, a slavic sister. therefore, the first secretaries of the central committee of the party of belarus and ukraine decided. pedal the situation, for a long time we did not open our archives, and we did not provide these materials, that is , the information was closed, today there are no blank spots, one of the volumes of the criminal case

number 26615 on the charge of meleshek vasily andreevich, seventy-five, already 48 years old, phonogram of the confrontation.

place on the hill, when the first car appeared, they opened fire; as it later turned out, the chief of the first company of the 118th police battalion, hans woelki, the olympic champion of the thirty-sixth year in shot put, was riding in it, and vasily meleshka was with him. at this time, near the site of the partisan ambush there were residents of the village of kozyri, whom the occupation authorities sent to cut down the forest; it was necessary to clear 50 m of the forest belt next to the road in order to the partisans were unable to get close to...

on the morning of march 22, 43. the partisans who set up the ambush retreated to khatyn. the 118th police battalion was sent from pleshchenitsy to massacre the residents of khatyn. since the connection was damaged and the unit did not know what happened on the road, only after the wounded little fellow returned, the personnel were alerted. this happened at approximately 13:00. they set out to pursue the partisans in full force and with heavy weapons.

kerner, the chief of the battalion, followed by companies of executions, to gather all the people from their houses and lead to the center of the village. there was such a barn, when i came to the barn, there were already about 10 citizens there, including my family, i also asked why they were not dressed, to which my wife adela and daughter edviga replied that their cartels had stripped them, they continued to round up people into this barn, and after a short time it was completely filled that you couldn’t even raise your hands, the raw size was 12x6.

i and my family members cried a lot, screamed, opened the door of the barn, the punitive forces began to shoot citizens with machine guns, machine guns and other weapons, but there was almost no shooting i could hear the howls of people because of the strong scream, i and my fifteen-year-old son adam found myself near the wall, dead citizens were falling on me, people still alive were rushing about in the general crowd, like waves, pouring... blood from the wounded dead was falling, the burning roof was collapsing, terrible , a wild cry, the howling of people intensified,

under it the people who were burning alive were screaming and tossing and turning so much that this roof was actually spinning, there was a flame, it was from early on, it was the yans who set fire to the khatyn at about 7:00 in the evening, it was already getting dark. they were screaming, crying, screaming, everything was scary. tsar joseph kaminsky became a mass grave for all residents of the village, the oldest joseph rudak was 69 years old, the youngest tolik yaskevich was only 7 weeks old, he burned down together with his mother, vera yaskevich. minsky's eldest daughter, yadviga , was in her last month of pregnancy.

well, that means then, after that, these and machine gunners were still shooting with rifles. that's where it ended. instead of the khatyn, the executioners left ashes. hours of the terrible monday in march, the punitive forces burned alive 149 people, 75 of whom were children under 16 years of age. there was another victim of khatyn, previously unknown, a girl from the neighboring village of mokrot, nina belikova. when the firefight began, the partisans began to retreat towards mokrodi, which is about one and a half to two kilometers from khatyn. today there is a forest, in 1943 there was a field. residents of mokorodi, hearing the shots, began to run into the forest. nina abelyakova, in some inexplicable way today, ended up on the field with saddles of water

; no one will tell today where or where she carried them from. the girl was killed by a random bullet. she became the first victim of khatyn at the same time. except for the fifty-six-year-old blacksmith joseph kaminsky had several more children still alive, because his mother had already covered lobkovich with her body. yaskevich was hiding in a potato hole, his sister. the back of the body and arms were burning, my son adam, who was lying not far from me,

about three meters away, called me to his side to pull him out of the puddle. i crawled over and lifted him up, but saw that he had been cut in half by bullets. my son adam still managed to ask if his mother was alive, but he died immediately. i got up myself and couldn’t move, but soon my friend came up to me. the village of khatyn was already completely burned out. kaminsky was treated at the bogdanovka farm by honored doctor of the bssr, maria anisimova, an underground worker who worked as a surgeon in a lagoi hospital, and on the third day after the tragedy, residents of khatyn were buried by residents of surrounding villages. the men sat down on the horse and

drove off; it was already dark. he lived in donetsk, he was arrested on april 1 , 1973, on the same day at 12:30 the first interrogation began, then he was transported to grodno, and four more accused were gradually brought here, until the trial

they were in grodno prison no. one. today it’s hard to say if it’s by chance. in the chernivtsi region of ukraine, grigory lakusta worked at the donetsk shakhtostroy trust. he led a brigade of carpenters. a team of 35 people, he coached the management’s football team, which took first place there in district and regional competitions, and a children’s football team. lacusta had two daughters. nadezhda worked as a dispatcher for gorgaz in the city of dakuchaevsk, and lyudmila was a student at donetsk university. a young girl jumps into our office: dad, where were you during the war? and i still don't i knew that you served with the nazis. he silently

shook his head, she turned alone from the table to the window. in october, one by one, sakhno knap ilazinsky was arrested. knap ilazinsky lived in the lviv region of sakhno in kuibyshev. everyone was taken to grodno. the investigation continued until december 29, 1973. of the five accused, only lakusta was taken to khatyn. seventy-third year, the memorial is already

in operation, but during the investigative experiment the complex was closed. on the site of the former village, lasto saw concrete ones. grodno regional court. the verdict was announced on march 15, 1974. the regional court sentenced them all to death, except for sokhnu, and then the supreme court replaced it, leaving

the punishment only to the commander, the deputy. according to meleshka's accusation, it consists of twelve volumes, which is interesting, the witness in the case is attention, basyura. on the same day, from the story of the battalion commander smovsky, i ... it became known that the police of our battalion participated in the execution and extermination of citizens of the village of khatyn. i'm in this operation i didn’t take part and don’t know the details.

company commander vinnitsky said that meleshka, lukovich, and lakusta especially distinguished themselves in this massacre, that they acted mercilessly and sadistically. this mercilessness and sadism were expressed in the destruction of civilians . the doomed were driven into a barn and set it on fire. when people started screaming and tried to run out of the barn, they were shot with all types of weapons. on may 22, 1975, the military tribunal of the belarusian military district announced the verdict against vasily meleshka. the highest penalty is execution. the verdict is given in execution on december 22, seventy-five. large forehead, vyalikaya dymerka, kiev region. the purpose of our trip was...

will not be called a special person. and in terms of toughness, sadism, dexterity, in decision-making or dexterity in avoiding responsibility, here is a noticeable person with such traits. vasyura was first arrested in march '52, sentenced to 25 years, but released under an amnesty in '55. the criminal case against nawasyuru was opened again on march 27, 1986. 24th.

did not confess to crimes, as far as khatyn, that’s what he called right away, he was forced to name khataevich somewhere there, in short, he even changed the name when he was pressed by other testimony, but i forgot that that was the name of the village, it was called exactly that, they usually bring it in the morning, then for lunch, takes him back to prison, after lunch he brings him back again, this is the first time they brought him, i say in...

he is transferred to minsk, to the kgb pre-trial detention center. in the entire pre-trial detention center he was alone, food was prepared for him alone, he went out for a walk alone, he could...

a notice was sent to the kiev region, i ask you to register the death of the convicted

vasyura grigory nikitovich. date of. which is what he lived by, he led a reclusive life, did not like to talk about the past, although he did not deny his participation in the transition to the german side and participation in the 118th battalion. the nakatryuk case was initiated in september 1987. the soviet union, and later independent belarus, repeatedly sent requests to canada without results.

seemed to agree to take part in the investigation, but some obstacles were created, the last executioner of khatyn, vladimir kotryuk, died at home in canada in 2015, he was 93, during his lifetime he did not answer for crimes for which there is no statute of limitations, even today there are some

legal ones. the criminal case against vladimir konstantinovich kotryuk, a native of the chernivtsi region of ukraine, has not been completed; it has been suspended.

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