Murder Story of Kherson Jews on Suvorov Street in Kherson (Gas Vans)

... When we heard automatic weapon fire from the direction of Suvorov Street, Kolya Skryl, who lived in the same house as I did, and I, climbed onto the roof of the Spartak Cinema. All of the Suvorov Quarter from Torgovaya Street to Kommunary Street was cordoned off by Germans. Within a couple of minutes a truck arrived with six or seven soldiers. They began to dig a pit between the cinema and the area where there is a planetarium today. A "bread truck" stopped near the pit. The back doors opened and soldiers began to take out the bodies of children. Two soldiers threw them into the pit. The body of Nakhama Bertman was among them - Kolya immediately recognized her. She had studied with him in school.... The German soldiers pulled the bodies from the inside of the truck with a hook. The pit was filled more than halfway when they pulled out the body of Shaya Sholosh. I recognized him right away by the grey suit with a white turndown collar that he used to wear.... They threw Shaya into the grave and afterwards several more bodies, and then started to cover [the pit]. Then the soldier who pulled the bodies from the "bread truck" began to level the earth....