women with children, including my grandmother ekaterina antonovna and her four daughters , were driveny many other women. they didn't let me go anywhere. for a week the hostages were locked up, some in the school, some in the basements, the remaining houses were cows. without their housewives they scattered around the village. the cow of aunt dasha and suslova came up to the window, the house was nearby opposite the school, well, the school stood and cried. her udder swelled to such an extent that the cow simply could no longer survive. aunt dasha was on her knees in front of the germans, what, give me the cow, i serve her, she will die, they didn’t let the cows out, they were dying. here along the stream they came to the watering hole and these cows died. a week or a week and a half away from everyone, they drove them to germany. tatyana kurilkina is 91 years old, a native of the village of krasnogorye. she is one of the few surviving eyewitnesses of those terrible events when the germans brought the residents of rechitsa to their house. the woman was 10 years old. today tatyana konst

uh, ekaterina antonovna and her four daughters included an 11 -year-old youngest. germans chose the village as a rear post from rechitsa, they regularly launched attacks on butsk vyselki, where the red army reliably held the defense. after the occupation of the boer settlements, the road to kharkov opened and the road went on, something not direct to moscow; each of their offensives ended in failure. it was a frosty and snowy winter. and our units, before we settle in front of ourselves, to ensure security. on january 20, the occupiers returned to the village after another unsuccessful operation. in rechitsa, in one of the houses there was a field kitchen of the invaders before the war. it had apartments, school teachers and on the ground floor a kindergarten with a very good , well-equipped kitchen. as far as i can tell. women and children worked in the kitchen. why with children? because everything that was prepared for feeding the germans was subjected to a preliminary test that it was destroyed, and for 7 hours who exactly did this is not clear until now such c