Letter of Testimony of Abram Bekker regarding his experiences during the Holocaust and the murder of the Jews of Khmelnik, 1941-1943
Occupation of the city of Khmelnik, 18 July 1941; establishment of the Judenrat under the chairmanship of Barenberg; order to the Khmelnik Jews to wear the yellow badge, a yellow band with a blue Jewish Star, 21 July 1941; prohibition on Jews to purchase merchandise in the market, except for potatoes and peas; prohibition on the local residents to speak with Jews; the first victim: the child Musya Gorbonos who was shot to death by a Ukrainian collaborator; arrival of the...
Letter to Ilya Ehrenburg by Alexander Barenboym, regarding the mass murder of Jews from Voroshilovgrad in Ostraya Mogila on 13/12/1942
The writer of the letter participated in the liberation of Voroshilovgrad in February 1943; he writes about the murder of the Jews, according to the stories of local residents; order given to the Jews to present themselves before the authorities in the Voroshilov stadium on 12/12/1942; arrival of the Jews to the assembly point and they are sent in trucks to the Ostraya Mogila area; murder of Jews by gunshot in an anti-tank trench near Ostraya Mogila, and murder by gas vans...