the 118th police battalion was sent from pleshchenitsy to deal with the residents of khatyn.ince the connection was damaged and the unit did not know what happened on the road, only after the return of the wounded little fellow. personnel. the people doomed to death, including me and my family members, cried a lot, screamed, opened the door of the barn, and the punishers began to shoot with machine guns. machine guns and other weapons of citizens, but the shooting was almost inaudible due to the strong scream of the howling people, i with my fifteen-year-old son adam i found myself near the wall, dead citizens were falling on me, people still alive were rushing about in the general crowd like waves, blood was flowing from the wounded dead, the burning roof was collapsing, a terrible, wild cry, the howl of people... intensified, under it the people who were burning alive were screaming and tossing and turning so much that the roof was actually spinning, there was a flame, there was an infestation, it was the yans who set khatyn on fire at about 7:00 in the evening , it was alr