Murder Story of Berdichev Jews in Khazhin

...On September the fourth, one week after the ghetto was organized, the Germans and traitors who had joined their police force ordered 1,500 young people to leave for agricultural work. The young people made bundles of bread and food, said goodbye to their relatives, and set out. On that very day, they were shot between Lysaya Gora and the village of Khazhin. The henchmen prepared the execution carefully – so carefully that none of the doomed people suspected until the very last minutes that there was a massacre in the offing. The victims were given detailed instructions as to where they would work, how they would be broken up into groups, and when and where they would be issued shovels and other tools. It was even hinted that, when the work was completed, they would each be permitted to take a few potatoes for the elderly who had remained in the ghetto. In few days of life, left to them, those who remained in the ghetto never learned the fate of those young people. “Where is your son?” someone would ask one of the old men. “He went to dig potatoes,” the old people would reply.