fascists covered the territory of the baranovichi, lyakhovichi, gantsevichi, kosovo, ivatseviche, pinsk, dragichand pruzhansky regions of belarus. what this meant for the civilian population is also in documentary evidence. on the eve of august 2, 1941, in the town of khomsk, drogichensky district, at noon , cavalrymen in ss uniforms suddenly appeared and immediately headed towards the mill. the main population of the town worked there: men, women, at the sight of the germans, everyone froze, and... the officer, having lined up the men in a line, explained to them that they were heading to other work, immediately ordered two to come forward, they were taken towards the field , soon ambassadors. the officer calmly continued to explain that they needed to hand over all valuables, rings, money. they don’t have this at their new place of work. required. ss men with cossacks in their hands approached the doomed men and forced them to put jewelry in them. machine gun fire rang out , they were finishing off those still alive with rifle butts, from the memories of eyewitnesses of those terrible events,