Murder Story of Gory Jews at the Gory Flax Factory

... Early in the morning of October 10, 1941, the Germans surrounded the town. They burst into the house of the eighty-years-old Efros. The old man was praying. One German grabbed him by the hand and shouted: "Out!" Efros replied: "Don't touch me! I am strong enough to go to the grave by myself." The Germans dragged the disabled Gurevich out of the neighboring house. His wife Mira was crying, but Gurevich told her: "Mira, there is no need to cry." The Jews were taken to the factory, where a huge grave had been dug. An old woman named Rakhlen shouted: "You will not be forgiven for the blood of these babies! You will answer for everything!"... She was murdered first. The Jews were forced to undress. "It is cold!" the small children cried. Khana Gurevich shouted: "I will not allow it, I will not let my child be abused," and she strangled her small daughter with her own hands. The aged Efros was murdered last....

... In October 1941, the Germans took about 200 Jews, the entire Jewish population of the town [of Gory], to the flax factory. After forcing them to undress and lie face down, they shot them all with automatic weapons. [The victims] were also killed with rifle butt [blows]. The bodies were buried in several graves. Many [victims] were thrown into these graves while still alive....

...The grave is sized 7 x 7 meters. The layer of earth is eighty centimeters deep. The bodies are heaped haphazardly, one atop the other, a total of about fifty people, of various ages and of both sexes, from little babies to elderly people. The bodies are 2 to 2.5 years old, and are partially decomposed. All have bullet wounds in the stomach and chest areas, most probably from automatic weapon fire. Some bear the traces of blunt trauma on their heads – broken skulls, broken bones. Some of them have single bullet wounds in the backs of their heads. Some of the bodies show no signs of damage; apparently, these [victims] were thrown into the grave alive...