evidence from vekova was preserved in the materials of the investigative files of the trial in minsk.ch a place, they didn’t grudge, they were afraid of life and death. criminals to god. the answer from the ussr followed immediately. the newspaper published the testimony of those who were the first to enter the burned belarusian cities after liberation and saw with their own eyes the consequences of nazi crimes. and the memories of ilya ehrenburg himself. there is a terrible place near minsk, the big trostenets, where 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. for belarus it became a terrible symbol of incomparable cruelty. he absorbed pain, suffering of prisoners of all concentration camps and ghettos created on the territory of the republic. including 546 thousand who were tortured, shot, burned alive directly in this hellish place. in terms of the number of people destroyed, it ranks fourth in europe after such notorious nazi death camps