Murder Story of Bobruysk Jews in Yeloviki

... Residents of Bobruysk will never forget the terrible November nights of the last year when the German cannibals carried out a brutal mass murder of Jews. Jews – both children and adults, were dragged out of their beds, put on trucks and brought to a deep ditch dug in the village of Yeloshki [Yeloviki]. Witness S. tells about horrible scenes: “All trucks in the town were mobilized. The arrived trucks were standing in line next to the ditch. The doomed people were standing in the trucks and watched those, who’s turn was before theirs, being shot. Groups of 40-50 people were put at the edge of the ditch, one, sometimes two abreast. Cut down by gun-machine bursts, people fell over still warm corps of those who had been murdered 10-15 minutes prior. Entire families were shot.” The Hitlerists excelled in their insults at the defenseless people. Mothers, holding their babies, approached the edge of the ditch being kicked by the Germans. The Germans took the babies away from some mothers, stubbed them with bayonets and threw into the ditch. When the deep ditch was full, the officer, who supervised the execution, called for a tank. The huge machine drove in the ditch over the planking human bodies as a ramming machine.According to uncompleted calculations, in November last year there were about 20,000 Jews killed ....