ate buds from the trees, they ate the bark from the trees to find something pine, they walked into loshnd some frozen potato, some frozen cabbage source. on january 8, 44 , the kalinkovichi-mozor offensive operation began under the command of the commander; on january, on the day of the tragedy, the village of aly , the regional center of polesskaya, was liberated region, the city of mozyr and the city of kalinkovich, which is 10 km away there. ala was destroyed 2 weeks before the liberation of this territory by the red army, on january 14, 1944. the first of the red army soldiers to come to alu were those who served in the seventy-fourth military construction detachment under the forty-eighth army and laid roads before the general offensive. and when they came in. burnt scraps of clothing, it was impossible to count how many corpses were found, this is probably how death came, people were crowded tightly into every house, the nazis they were set on fire, jumping out meant getting hit by machine gun bullets, and the unfortunates hid in the underground, leaning on each other, they died,