Murder Story of Batsevichi Jews at the Ustye Russian Orthodox Cemetery

...I live in the village that was known as Ustye before the war. A bridge [across the Olsa River] separated Ustye from the large Jewish town of Batsevichi. We [non-Jews] had 170 households, but there were even more [households] in Batsevichi, where almost everyone was Jewish. Batsevichi had its own bakery, brick and peat factories, pharmacy, and clinic. We had a kolkhoz named “Bolshevik”, and there was another one in Batsevichi. Only a single Jewish family lived in our village. They lived not far from us. I was very friendly with the Jewish girl Mira, who was my age. We didn’t attend school yet, but we played together all the time. Mira was a very pretty girl, with long dark braids. One fall, the Germans entered our village, rounded up the members of the large Jewish family, forced them to dig a pit, and shot them all. I hid Mira under the stove in our house. I was really hoping that she, at least, would survive. But a policeman who had seen the girl approached us. He came up to my mother and told her that he would shoot her and our entire family if we didn’t hand over the hidden child. Mother said that she hadn’t seen anyone, since she had been in the yard. The policeman crawled under the stove, pulled the little girl out, and took her away. They were all shot....