slovsky, it differs from smovsky by only one letter. village to be burned, but before that the police plundered the houses of the local residents, stole the scott, and then set fire to every yard. next on the list for destruction was the village of vileika, in the same dokshitsky district. at a cemetery near a populated area, ukrainian police ran into partisans and a shootout ensued. the partisans retreated on may 20 , 1943, and they burst into the village and burned five collective farm buildings and 42 houses. kidnapped for forced labor in germany. residents of the village of osawa are also included in these statistics of nazi crimes. on may 27, 1943 , the 118th ukrainian police battalion dealt with them. the victims were the families of the partisans. they were issued by the local elder. the children were driven into a barn, and after it became known that the headman’s son was also among the partisans, he was thrown into a well. the rest of the population was lined up in a line, they watched with their own eyes how it all happened. t

on the approach to the village, on the orders of smovsky and vasyura, shelling of the settlement began how the punishers paved the way for themselves. bursting into the chmelevichs of the old people. threatened after being shot, they were kept in the cold for several hours, during which time houses were robbed and livestock taken out, then the village itself was set on fire, 58 houses and outbuildings were destroyed. chmelevichs became the first khatyn of the ukrainian policemen. in february '43, several more actions to exterminate civilians took place. the 118th battalion gave its final battle chord in the minsk region in the modern village of dalkoviche. they exhausted it and after that they abandoned it and drove off to their shoulders, after them my father, a policeman, died. 118 ukrainian battalion along with others nazi units were recruited to participate in punitive actions. under the pretext of fighting partisans, the executioners exterminated civilians and burned villages. the existing order in the battalion and strictly supported by the command was aimed at instilling in the