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Olga Semyonovna Yakimchuk lives in the village of Ostrovo now, and she is "z vognennay vyosk і" Kamenka. In the autumn evenings on the small farm near the village of Kamenka burned by chasteners, having inclined under an oil lamp, being concealed from children, Anna, in girlhood Mishchuk, with the husband on a wooden die established vystruganny small crosses. In a hole on the edge of the village near the ashes remains of her burned parents and two brothers lay. The dream in which the prophetic voice told it dreamed Anna's husband to put so many crosses how many is people there on a grave. To sorokovina the die with hundred eighty six crosses was established, but staid not for long. Politsa were noticed and long tried to find out who could make it.

Residents of the village of Kamenka met Sunday morning on September 6, 1942 as usual. From the dawn owners standing. Semyon Savich and Ekaterina Andreevna Mishchuk married the oldest daughter Anna, and other five children lived with them. Special nervousness was for seniors Olga, Vera and Nadia — they on age could be taken away to Germany. It was necessary to hide girls. Nadia still grazed cows in the neighboring village, and Vera and Olya still slept this morning. Having gone outside, Ekaterina Andreevna heard noise of motors. Understanding that it can mean, rushed to awake daughters.

Those, putting on on the run, rushed through the street to sheds. There, between their and next, there were still untidy peas. There girls also whisked, on the styly earth, having very closely nestled one on one. They did not know that there come the most tragic hours in their life.

Closer and closer rumble of cars, German voices and teams. Germans scrupulously surveyed sheds, Clooney and at home, took out, removed, put on supplies, and then, having robbed, set fire. And confused, sleepy children and adults were expelled on the street on which they were waited by chasteners. Having slightly raised the heads, girls saw that people under barrels of automatic machines were conducted towards the village of Striya. When the near shed began to burn, Olga and Vera, hiding in puffs, ran to young growth of trees opposite to their house. Shots, shouts, then continuous automatic turns began to be heard. Not in forces to sustain the events, in a veil of a dense black smoke of the girl left the shelter. Ran towards the village of Kozishche, bent down, fell, rose. Choked with sobbings, for horror, realizing that happened to their family and fellows villager, but the reality was more cruel. To the farm where there lived their sister Ania with a family, those who, as well as they, could unnoticed get out of the burning village, from under lead heavy rain began to gather. Timofey Verush hid in the shed and when Germans set fire to a shed, managed to make a hole in straw eaves and to escape. Ivan Maksimuk was among those who appeared under a sight of numerous chasteners. It among others lay among the street the person to the earth, hands for the head while Germans took out stolen and took away a livestock. Then chasteners lifted several lying people. Ivan raised the head and saw how they were killed in a shed with shots in an emphasis. And then its shout: "People, run, to all of us there will be an end!" lifted many. The ring of security guards broke, but automatic turns overtook running.

Several survived men Germans forced to bear wounded and the killed in a shed. Wounded were not finished. Men were pushed there too. Poured over a shed gasoline and set fire. When the earth cooled down and the smoke only made the way from ashes depth, chasteners drove from the village Bosyach of men and forced them to dig a hole nearby. Remains of people dug, without sepulchral hill, having leveled the earth.

Nadezhda Savchenko

Savchenko, N. "We loved life" / Nadezhda Savchenko//Kobrynsk_ vesn_k. – 2012. – 14 studzenya. – Page 4.
About the tragedy of the village of Kamenka.

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