Murder story of Cherikov Jews in the Mostovoye Ravine

… I saw how the Jews were being taken to be shot. They were collected near the Catholic church. On the back of their clothes they wore six-pointed stars. They were told that they were being taken to Krichev for resettlement but then were taken in another direction, toward Zarechye, to a place called Krasnyi Bereg [Mostovoye Ravine]. There were many people, everyone carrying something. There were lots of children. The columns were guarded by Germans and local policemen. There weren’t any dogs. Along the way there was first a bridge, then a mill; beyond them was a place where, before the war, people had dug a pit to harvest peat. They took the Jews to the pit and, immediately, began to shoot. One fifteen-year old girl lagged behind. She caught up with the column when the murderers had already shot everyone else and were on the way back. She screamed that she had fallen behind, that her mother and father were there. They shot the girl right there on the street, and the local residents buried her near the bathhouse….