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The burned Eagle 

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Once on the bank of the Dnepro-Bugsky channel in the picturesque place there was a village with the beautiful name Eagle. Hardworking inhabitants sowed wheat, grazed cattle, raised children. But already 58 years are empty here. The village the Eagle fell into oblivion after only memory of incidentally escaped inhabitants, children who survived was completely burned out by Hitlerite aggressors in days of the Great Patriotic War, and, a far echo reminds premilitary and military years...

Near this village, behind the channel there were railroad tracks on which in the years of war often there passed fascist echelons. The guerrillas who lodged in the Eagle made ambushes and undermined enemy equipment. After the next such operation the fascist retaliatory group was sent to the village. At night on December 22, 1943 the German invaders, having put boards on a thin ice layer, passed via the channel. On the suburb of the Eagle there was a small hut of a family Homuk, Germans also entered it. The owner did not manage to understand that he happened as fell from automatic turn. Whether seven children who woke up from noise could think that in a home they will die of an enemy bullet? But this execution was only the beginning of punitive operation of fascists. Having driven to this house of civilians of the village, Germans threw it grenades, and then set fire. They right there shot those who tried to get out of the flaring house. And only 13-year-old Yakov Vasilyuk by some miracle managed to get out of this hell. At Yakov Grigoryevich then all died: grandmother, grandfather, father and mother. Those inhabitants of the Eagle who did not manage to run away into the wood or into the neighboring villages were shot. Chasteners did not spare either old men, or children. They set fire to all 12 houses of the village, and then waited until each of houses burns down to a tl. After leaving of Germans the survived residents of the village the Eagle and the neighboring villages buried the dead, and in five years after war remains of 27 people who burned down in this hut were postponed for the hill, in the common mass grave. Could not build up anew the village the Eagle any more, and at first only the family visited graves of relatives.

But already more than 10 years began a good tradition to gather in day of the Radonitsa on this cemetery to children, grandsons and great-grandsons of the dead and on particles, from stories of eyewitnesses, to learn about how lived and people close to them died. M. P. Shemetyuk: - That ill-fated night elder brothers and sisters ran away into the neighboring village with the peers. Mother with me on hands, and I was only three years old, too tried to escape. After it zastrochit a machine gun. At this time by it the vehicle passed, and someone shouted: "Throw rather than the boy, we to the neighboring village". Mother and made, and itself remained to learn that she happened to the father. The father then already burned in Homuk's house. Next day mother found all of us, but soon after that she got sick and died. I was grown up by elder sisters.

M. I. Homuk: - I remember the parents only according to photos. As fellows villager told me, having seen the fire and having heard machine gun fire, my mother understood that in the village Germans. I then was only 8 months old. Having swaddled me is stronger, mother took to the heels to the neighboring village. Germans noticed it and began to shoot it at a back. She long ran, did not fall dead yet. Fascists started up some more machine gun fire in that party. Already later, when survived buried the dead, one of women noticed that I am living and I suck a materina a breast. Mother closed me the body, saving me life.

Each mogilka, each monument on a cemetery in the Eagle is the tragicly broken life during war. Through generations children, grandsons, great-grandsons of the dead in day of the Radonitsa become for each other one big family. They know how their family died and sacredly revere their memory.

Margarita Savchuk

Savchuk, M. Sozhzhenny Eagle / Margarita Savchuk//Kobrin-inform. — 2003. — May 8. — Page 1-2.
About the tragedy of the village Eagle.



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