another year was added, khatyn, the execution of the population of the village of khatyn became the last chord of the bloody operation “winter magic”, or in the german version, winter charms. it was held from february 16 to march 31. “the main performers were german units, which were also present , anti-aircraft and artillery units, a communications platoon, two special groups of police and sd, a special air group. the main striking force was seven latvian police battalions,

an estonian company. latvian campaigns of the police battalions shepherding the dark night, 15 lyutaga 43 years old, rushing like entire fronts into hibernation, came out on the very right. front of the fight against peaceful inhabitants. the front was formed in ryza, where latvian police battalions were collected, there were five to seven of them, both estonian and ukrainian. the tactics are also special. combat groups, which consisted of three or four latvian police battles,

were supposed to enter villages on the spot and shoot everyone who was suspected of involvement in the partisans. some of the able-bodied residents were sent as as a rule, first to the salasfils camp, and from there then in germany, we were all gathered at the zelip station in latvia, where , there were more than a thousand people, i tried to get money and know my status as a worker in the camp, as well as the workers who escaped , kali tandymi ўkrematorі all the time.

kali old adjuli i pavali yama at bagaaadelny, you at bagaaadelnya , i bagadzelni gat tachsama became smokes, and tada is oko pusyli lyudza gaty vodrotka of hellish old women, there is a daddled sail tuaraks, the hustka. following special police officers were sent.

there was only one line of light left for the living; the entire area was exhausted. at the same time, during operation winter magic, with the participation of punitive forces, 387 settlements were destroyed . over 13,000 civilians were killed, over 7,000. were forcibly taken to germany for forced labor, we made the breakthrough with partisans, it was scary in the forest there, with all the weapons of the germans, and planes, guns , from the people, there were people, you know, everyone, in a bunch,

screwed up, i remember, little , i'm going to hit the heap fell, 50,000 soldiers were only german planes and guns, how many in the morning the germans found us in the forest, whole stacks of partisans and all the weak, all the wounded began to take us captive, how terribly the germans bordered us and drove us here oh yuh zhytsely. they collected several villages from the villages, and they rounded us up at ushachu, then there was sorting, selection, which, as a teenager, which i was already 14 years old, well, such young women, and then they took us to work, gave us

a gift for the vepel, and then typhus will appear there, and we, without pills, that the rodets generally walked naked and without memory, the fascists carried out bloody reprisals against the inhabitants of the borisov-begomal partisan zone with particular cruelty, aviation was sent to exterminate defenseless people, and then the narrow-minded people jumped on us,

the chicken cutter, as the yans called us so the flight and the passions forgot a lot, the runaway sister, i brother... by the hand, the plane came and the victims, the butts, and everyone was at the crypt, everyone was saved there, it was here that the yans bombed, and also bombed, not just the cubes, according to the act on crimes committed by the german occupiers in the villages of begomalsky, borisovsky pleschenitsy district, only... in one begomlsky district, the nazis burned 10,000 civilians, drove 5,000 boys and girls to germany. in total, during the cottbus operation, the punitive forces burned completely or partially 221 settlements.

on july 18, 1943 , the germans came to the village of dory in the volozhinsky district of the baranobi region, people began to be driven to the square, there they were told that all residents should gather in the church.

red and white bandages on the sleeves. when the church was filled with people, the massacre began. according to eyewitnesses of the events, people were killed using proven methods, sadistically. night. there are noises everywhere , crying, at dawn

they called for the church at the front door. in the memory of those who lived through them.

there was a wooden church in this place, and during the blockade, the nazis drove the peaceful residents of the village of dora here, burned them alive, only one single boy managed to get out of the church, go down to the vadze and save his life. dzerenya makrychaushchyna, dory, middle village, slabada, sharai, sulzhychy, dubovitsy, nelyuby, geta dorskaga seltsaveta, geta everything was planted, not counting others, in the summer of 43. for six weeks

in the summer of 1943, the nazis burned belarusian villages, destroying the civilian population. in terms of its duration and atrocities, operation herman ranked among the most bloody and sadistic. very. a boy came running to the village and told them that punitive forces were coming and were eating up all the villages at once, our village was eskova near kokhanovich, he could have left, but the old people and children stayed and burned there, maybe 30 people and they burned the whole village esikova, now there is a monument there.

the second time they caught us anyway, they punished us, and then they brought us somewhere, there was a camp there, we lived there in the camp and worked for the latvians, we were detained very poorly, and everyone was cold and hungry, we were sent to germany in wagons of which they transported cattle, the city of dusseldor, my parents worked at a brick factory, they left the children in some dark building, slept on the floor, in some tents, and starved, my sister was younger than me, she died of hunger. we got to estonia and were put on

ship, so we sailed, where there in germany, the parents were taken to another camp, and the children to another to nurseries, my god, how it was very difficult in the camp. horrible stories of residents

of the republic who were driven into slavery in germany, thousands of them, each with the tragedy of a specific person who was deprived of everything, his country, loved ones, his home, the right to life. how they ended up in slavery, everyone has the same story, forced theft of labor. germany, three people came to alone early. then the germans or someone, well, in german clothes, and they took me here to school then they brought something that was standing here, they took it away, maybe 500 people, there was stuffed there, and they trimmed it like that, the germans were already letting them in one by one, they were amazed, there were police all around with dogs

and guns. germans, that means we are destroying all your families, para-shooting, father said, well, we want to live, grow, and add. large enterprises such as luft hansa, telefunkin, benz, junker and others, working for the reich war machine, became places of hard labor for abducted citizens from belarus in germany.

my mother and her family worked at the mirenza factory , it was a large enterprise, they were engaged in sewing clothes for german military personnel, this is a very large enterprise, this is the city of neun-munstr, they were very strictly punished if a needle broke, and my mother was by nature, she is hardworking , the warden german, noticing that she was very diligent, suddenly somehow came up, looked, took pity on her, stroked her in her pocket , put four needles, but said, if you show it to someone, i... gave one needle to my friend, after all, she broke it, i i saw that she was crying, i think that at least she would not have been sentenced, because it was already subject to execution, the girls were taken to work in germany from the chaussky district of the district, those stolen from the republic were sent to

a quarry in france, to coal mines, a little more lucky then he ended up on farms or in personal service to german masters. slaves were sold to them at a reasonable price, which could be purchased not only in germany; people were sent to austria, east prussia, latvia, poland, lithuania. in kulyatski she was 23 years old, she was nine years old blow. and i have nine cows, and then after showing that you will feed the pigs, 100 pigs. the stories of the inhabitants of belarus driven into slavery are different, but they are all similar in

one thing: the conditions are unbearable, the treatment is inhumane. it was very difficult for everyone there, about this in letters from captivity, which history has preserved for us, and which never reached our homeland, our torn homeland. kudryashev, sebastian, stade, camp, stadium, while i’m still alive. the food here is bad, we only get rutabaga, 300 g of bread, many were left in slices for life, without arms and legs. solodkaya polina kasel, frankfurterstrasse 191. i

’ve been sick for 3 days now, but i’m working, otherwise i have to lie in the barracks. i receive no medical help, and no food either. i have to fast for 12 hours. reshetnikova motya, camp of eastern workers rogenfelt, fortress dömitz. my dear mother, it would be better if you buried me than sent me to a foreign country. at the beginning of january 1946 in minsk, in the building of the district officers' house, the military prosecutor's office of the republic continued to interview witnesses on facts of genocide of civilians.