testimony of witness akimova, to doctors of the minsk psychiatric hospital.t was september 18, 1941. an ss police officer, accompanied by a chemist, ordered doctor kitoevich to prepare about 20 patients for the subject of testing the action of some gas. the patients were ordered to be brought into the bathhouse, near which. specialist. the first experience of extermination by gas in the occupied belarusian territory was used in the psychiatric hospital in novinki. subsequently, gas installations, mobile, stationary, created on the basis of new developments of german specialists, will appear in the concentration camps of the ghetto. the car, the black raven was called, they put people, supposedly for interrogation, the whole family and children, everyone, went, the exhaust pipe did not go past, but went here through this camera, yes, while they were driving, they weren’t transporting it for any good, nothing, it’s carbon monoxide, it’s a corpse, they’re taking it to a storage place, they threw it out. history has preserved the terrible evidence of mass executi