stepan pilunov's statement to the head of the belarusian headquarters of the partisan movement pyotrhaving started excavation of a ditch at a depth of half a meter, we found buried corpses so decomposed that many of us vomited. the corpses in the ditch were stacked 6-8, and in some places 12 rows, one corpse feet first, the next head first, and so on in the same order. first day. we're working until dark have learned no less four thousand pipes of the group were removed manually. they were laid on these structures, which means that, uh, the row was up to 20 bodies, then again, poles of resin, crushed coal, and again such a row up to 80 m 8-10 m. this whole structure reached in swampy areas, these take out the corpses with ordinary peasant pitchforks from the pits from this slurry and lay them down. it's all up on the stacks with improvised means for the complete. let's just say the destruction of those remains that were not destroyed by fire, they were ground and found in some places of burial this was already when the emergency commission was working up to a 40-cm layer of ash and c