she became the first in too. blacksmith joseph kaminsky, several more children survived.overed by his mother, volodya yaskevich was hiding in a potato hole, his sister sonya was in the cellar. my peers were in the pit, covered with boards, so i ’m telling you. that the german opened the board, and the children were sitting there, and he waved his finger, closed, closed, went, i had a burnt back part of the body and arm, my son, who was lying not far from me, about three meters away, called me to him, to pull him out of the puddle, i crawled over, lifted him, and then died. i got up myself and couldn’t move, but soon my brother-in-law, iskevich joseph antonovich, who lived on a farm about one and a half kilometers from the village of khatyn, came up to me and took me to his home, or rather, almost carried me. the village is already hot. burned out completely. kaminsky was treated at the bogdanovka farm by honored doctor of the bsr maria anisimova, an underground worker who worked as a surgeon in lagoi hospital. and on the third day after the tragedy, residents of khatyn we

the only adult who survived the fire was the village blacksmith joseph kaminsky.al more children were saved in khotyn, sasha zhelabkovich managed to escape when the village was surrounded, vitya zhalabkovich was covered by his mother with her body, thus giving him life twice. sonya yaskevich managed to go to her aunt in a neighboring village, her brother volodya hid in a potato pit. i don’t remember how long i sat in the pit, but it was already getting dark when i heard the trumpet signal. i realized that the punishers were leaving our village, then he crawled out of the hole. the whole village was burning. i ran into the forest, thinking that my relatives and the rest of the villagers were hiding from the punitive forces in the forest. i ran through the forest, screaming, but no one responded, then i went to the village to visit my uncle. the next day , march 23, 1943, uncle joseph yaskevich and i went to the village of khatyn. the barn in which the punitive forces burned people was still smoldering. burnt human bones lay on its ashes. burnt corpses lay near the