sonya i skevich managed to go to her aunt in the neighboring village; her brother . hid in a potato hole. how long did i sit in the hole? i don’t remember, but it was already evening when i heard the trumpet signal. i realized that the punishers were leaving our village, then i 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 eskevich joseph and i. we went to the village of khatyn, a barn in which the punitive forces burned people still smoldering on its ashes lay, charred human bones lay near the barn, charred corpses among the corpses. i found my brother victor and two sisters i recognized my father by his teeth, since he was burned beyond recognition, and i recognized my mother by their shoes. she was lying under the fence holding the hand of her younger brother vladik. for the executioners w

sonya i skevich managed to go to her aunt in the neighboring village, her brother. dya hid in a potato hole. how long did i sit in the hole? i don’t remember, but it was already evening when i heard the trumpet signal. i realized that the punishers were leaving our village, then i 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 was running around shouted in the forest, but no one responded then. i went to the village to visit my uncle the next day, march 23, 1943. uncle eskevich joseph and i. we went to the village of khatyn , a barn in which the punitive forces burned people , there were still smoldering on its ashes, charred human bones lay near the barn, charred corpses among the corpses. i found my brother victor and two sisters i recognized my father by his teeth, since he was burned beyond recognition, and i recognized my mother by their shoes. she was lying under the fence holding the hand of her younger brother vladik.