Articles about Kobrin: Tragedy of the villages of Kobrin district

Memory a candle does not die away …  

Bloody glow of a flame September, 1942 became history of Kobrin district. From hands of Hitlerite invaders hundreds of civilians died, three villages were burned to ashes: Borisovka, Kamenka, Recyca...

The biggest human and material losses were suffered by Borisovka. There was it on September 23. Since then this date became day of grief for by miracle the escaped in a slaughter, their descendants and people, after lodged in the village which rose from ashes. Here and this time, in the 65th anniversary of the tragedy, in the center of the village the locals who arrived from other places people to remember the dead, to honor their memory, to carry by it further in minds and hearts of descendants hurried. Many at first went to the museum which appeared in Borisovke on an initiative and thanks to efforts of those to whom history of the native land, destinies in it living and recent is not indifferent. In the rural museum many certificates of the reasons and results of the tragedy played in the clear September afternoon are collected.

First of all the magazine of military operations when performing operation code-named "Triangle", the final report on retaliatory expedition to of Borisovk draw from September 22 to September 27 attention. From the report it is visible that fascists not only brutally dealt shortly with people, but also were engaged in a robbery. After information that in Borisovke 169 people were shot of more than 30 - during a round-up on farms, 225 houses are burned, Hitlerites listed how many among the killed was women and men, children and old men... And then there is a list of stolen: 435 cows, 520 sheep, 250 pigs... Seized even hens, different country stocks.

The given above and other data of the report, as well as plans of operation, appeared among the documents taken by the Soviet troops in fights near Voronezh. Subsequently they were presented on the Nuremberg process as the evidence of brutal actions of Hitlerites in occupied territories.

According to the plan of operation Borisovka has to be surrounded in the night from 22 for September 23 and from the dawn to begin an action of destruction. At 4 o'clock in the morning the village was surrounded. As chasteners had no district map, the farm remained out of a ring. Undertook them later, after punishment over Borisovka and her inhabitants.

What occurred the 23rd in the village? From escaped this day several people who was for 8-10 years are nowadays living. Sisters Anna Bokatyuk and Ekaterina Zanovskaya remember how on the village politsa and the head went, declared that all inhabitants should go for meeting. The place of collecting was appointed quite strange - near a rural cemetery.

Women and men were divided into groups, put ranks. In one of them there was also Ekaterina. Then Germans and politsa went on ranks, looked at the faces, asked questions. After that some were released. Also Ekaterina was among them.

Remained were transferred to sheds. Men were given shovels and forced to dig a hole. When it was ready, began to bring people out of sheds groups on 10 people. After each exit sounds of shots reached captives... That nobody could escape, fateful removed along the corridor formed by submachine gunners. It became clear: it is their final terrestrial journey...

Adults were shot on the edge of a freshly exposed grave, small children were pinned up bayonets. From among doomed to death by miracle units managed to escape. Ekaterina and Anna's mother hid under a heap of straw in a shed corner where unnoticed stayed before dark. The teenager Mikhail Pavlyuchik tried to run. When the bullet which is started up after burned with pain, fell to the ground, pretended to be the dead. Chasteners considered that it is killed...

In Borisovke there are three places where people come with not fading pain in a fit of temper. One of them - an obelisk in the center of the village in memory of the victims of the chasteners and fellow countrymen who died on fronts of the Great Patriotic War. The second - an earth piece where the men seated by ranks, women, children waited for the fate.

Audience of these places and did not obminut on September 23 this year. But to the main point of grief and memory - - send to a grave on the edge of the birch wood and arrived as speak, and it is old, and mlad. To remember dear people, circumstances of their death, to pray for the peace of souls innocently murdered, to lay flowers at the bottom of the monument representing the grieving female mother. And to light candles of the memory passing from generation to generation.

Maria Petrovskaya

Petrovskaya, M. Memory a candle … / Maria Petrovskaya//Kobrynsk_ vesn_k does not die away. – 2007. – 26 verasnya. – Page 1, 4.
About the tragedy of the village of Borisovka.



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