and the memories of ilya ehrenburg himself.here 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. the trostenets death camp has become a terrible symbol incomparable for belarus. it absorbed the pain and suffering of prisoners of all concentration camps and ghettos created on the territory of the republic, including 546 thousand tortured, shot, burned alive directly in this hellish place. in terms of the number of destroyed, it is in fourth place. in europe after such notorious nazi death camps as auschwitz, majdanok, treblenka. blagovshchina tract. mass executions took place here. the village of maly trostenets, the camp itself. nearby is the shashkovka tract, the site of a 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 the