The Zonal State Archives in Rechitsa presents a document on the genocide of the Nazi invaders against the residents of Rechitsa

The archival collection of digital copies of documents as originals of the Extraordinary State Commission of the USSR for the Investigation of the Crimes of Fascism contains a huge number of protocols of interviews with witnesses of the massacres of the German occupiers and their accomplices against the civilian population. The Nazis were especially cruel towards the Jews.

In particular, on November 24, 1944, a resident of Rechitsa, Mikhail Iosifovich Sosnovsky, was interviewed (F.864. Op.1. D.3. L.109). He testified that in September 1941, the Nazis drove his family out of their home – his father Iosif, his mother Alita and his brother Chaim Sosnovsky. They were sent to a hostel in the city’s factory district, surrounded by barbed wire, where they were all shot.

ZGAREch. F.864. Op.1. D.3. L.109