Murder Story of Miloslavichi Jews at the Miloslavichi School

At the end of November or the beginning of December of 1941 the Germans arrived from Karpachi, a nearby village where Jews had been murdered on the same day. On that day many Jews and non-Jews worked on the threshing-floor. The Germans shot some Jews, including children, on the streets and rounded up others at the threshing floor. All of those who worked there were sent to the village, Jews and non-Jews separately. Later the Jews of Miloslavichi, including those who had been taken from their homes, mostly women and children, were forced into the local school. From there they were taken in groups to the nearby silage pit, lined up at the edge of the pit, and shot dead. One Jew was forced to jump into the pit to arrange the bodies of the murdered Jews and then he was shot. The bodies were covered with earth. The massacre was, apparently, carried out by members of Einsatzkommando 9B. The number of victims was about 115. Some Jews, including some young women, managed to hide during the murder. The day after the shooting the Ryzhenskiy and Superfin,sisters, who had hidden in the barn, were found by the local policeman Ilya Borisenko, who did not report them but sent them with a letter to his mother in a nearby village. Later they joined some partisans and survived. Some other Jews who tried to escape the murder were denounced by the locals to the Germans and policemen and were shot. All Jewish property was divided up by the local policemen, along with other [local] inhabitants.