and the memories of ilya ehrenburg himself.re is a terrible place near minsk, the big trostenets. there, the germans, wanting to hide traces of crimes, burned corpses, dug out those buried and burned them. i saw half-charred bodies, a girl's head, a woman's body. hundreds, hundreds of corpses. for belarus, the trostenets death camp has become a terrible symbol of incomparable cruelty. it absorbed the pain and suffering of prisoners of all concentration camps and ghettos created on the territory of the republic. including 546 tortured. the village of maly trostenets, the camp itself, next to the shashkovka tract, the site of mass burning. people, they all made up the trostenets death camp, where the process of mass extermination of people did not stop for a single day, depriving them of the right to life, leaving no chance to escape from this hell. early in the morning in early june 1944, prisoners of the maly trestenets camp were awakened by shots. in in one of the barracks people began to listen, judging by the sounds coming f

and the memories of ilya ehrenburg himself.k, the big trostenets, where the germans, wanting to hide traces of crimes, burned corpses, dug out those buried and burned them. i saw half-charred bodies, a girl's head, a woman's body, hundreds, hundreds of corpses. for belarus it became a terrible symbol of incomparable cruelty. he absorbed pain, suffering of prisoners of all concentration camps and ghettos created on the territory of the republic. including 546 thousand who were tortured, shot, burned alive directly in this hellish place. in terms of the number of people destroyed, it ranks fourth in europe after such notorious nazi death camps as auschwitz, majdanek, treblenka. the tract blagovshchina. mass executions took place here. the village of maly trostenets is the camp itself. nearby is the shashkovka tract, a place of mass burning of people. all they constituted the trostenets death camp, where the process of mass extermination of people did not stop for a single day, depriving them of the right to life, leaving no chanc