Murder Story of Chernevka Jews on Tsentralnaya Street in Chernevka

... Early one morning in August 1941 a German killing unit of 30 men arrived on bicycles in the town of Chernevka. All the village [town] was rounded up and heavily guarded by local policemen. All of the men (Belarusian and Jewish) were immediately collected in the square near the local administration building. The local Belarusians were separated from the prisoners of war and the Jews, and then the commander of the killing unit (his name is unknown) delivered a speech in Russian. Afterwards the local [Belarusian] residents were sent home while all the others were drawn up in rows of four, given shovels and, guarded by soldiers with machine guns, taken to a ditch (northeast of Chernevka). At this site the men had to dig pits. They were then lined up in front of the pits and shot to death. About 200 people were shot to death on that day....