{"id":1021535,"date":"2025-10-08T10:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1021535"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T07:36:10","slug":"little-known-documents-on-the-history-of-the-great-patriotic-war-from-the-collections-of-the-zonal-state-archives-in-rechitsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1021535","title":{"rendered":"Little-known documents on the history of the Great Patriotic War from the collections of the Zonal State Archives in Rechitsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the witness interrogation records from <strong>the archival collection of digital copies of documents purporting to be originals of the USSR Extraordinary State Commission for the Investigation of Fascist Crimes<\/strong> is <strong>the interrogation record of Andrei Sidorovich Ripun<\/strong>, a resident of <strong>the village of Gorval in the Rechitsa District<\/strong> (F.864. Inv.1. ArchivesKeep.3. P.134).<\/p>\n<p>He testified as follows regarding the crimes of the German occupiers: <em>\u00abIn early October 1941, in our village of Gorval, German bandits captured and brought a captured Red Army soldier, holding him overnight. The next morning, they mobilized two carts and took him to the forest. When they brought him to the forest, the German executioners shot him point-blank with three bullets and, threatening me with a knife, ordered my neighbor and me to bury the body of the executed Red Army prisoner, while the German bandits themselves rode on to capture and kill Soviet citizens\u00bb<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-42.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1075959\" class=\"wp-image-1075959 alignnone size-full\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>ZGAREch. F.864. Op.1. D.3. L.134<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the witness interrogation records from the archival collection of digital copies of documents purporting to be originals of the USSR Extraordinary State Commission for the Investigation of Fascist Crimes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sitenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021536,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021535\/revisions\/1021536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}