Charges pressed by prosecutor’s office against punisher Yermolchik: he killed 247 civilians, left Belarus and changed his name

The Supreme Court of Belarus has begun the trial of a criminal case against Aleksandr Yermolchik (1915-1984), an accomplice of the Nazi executioners from the Gomel Region, and this has become another case of the genocide of the Belarusian people during the Great Patriotic War. Last week, Nazi collaborator Vinnitsky was found guilty.

Senior prosecutor Natalia Sokolova shared the details, “Aleksandr Yermolchik is accused of committing crimes under Article 127 of the Criminal Code: genocide of the Belarusian people. During the preliminary investigation, 25 episodes of his criminal activity were established as part of a paramilitary auxiliary police unit in the urban settlement of Khoiniki in the Polesie (now Gomel) Region, where he worked as an investigator, and which he headed since June 1942.”

The man was born in 1915 in the village of Mokish [does not exist now] in the Khoiniki District. From the autumn of 1941 to 1943, he was on the territory of the BSSR, led and directly participated in punitive operations.

"He committed brutal murders of at least 247 residents of Belarus, including the elderly, women and children, that is, people who could not resist the punisher," the state prosecutor noted. “After the retreat of the Nazi invaders, Yermolchik lived in Germany and was known there as Albert Krueger. Yermolchik died on November 27th, 1984, without being punished for his crimes.”