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

The archival collection of digital copies of the original documents of the Extraordinary State Commission of the USSR for the Investigation of the Crimes of Fascism contains digital copies of the protocols of interviews with witnesses of the massacres of the German occupiers and their accomplices against the civilian population. Among them is the protocol of the interview with Ilya Ignatovich Atamanchuk, a resident of Rechitsa, whose family suffered at the hands of the Nazis (F. 864. Op. 1. D. 3. L. 99-99ob).

Ilya Ignatovich testified as follows: «On June 16, 1942, at 11 a.m., my son Lev Ilyich Atamanchuk, born in 1926, and I went fishing on the Dnieper River in a boat. When we had driven about 50 meters from the shore, a shot rang out and my son was killed. As far as I knew, my son was killed by a German officer who, together with German soldiers, were drunk, walking along the river bank, along the boulevard. The German officer, seeing us, put his rifle on the fence of the boulevard, and shot at us. <…> When I swam to the shore, the German officer who had shot my son and two more Germans began to laugh. Having laughed, they left».

1-2. ZGARech. F. 864. Op. 1. D. 3. L. 99-99ob