Murder story of Shchors Jews in the Chernigov City Area

... 48. Moisei Abramovich Shleimovich, male, born in 1877 49. Shleimovich, female, born in 1882 50. Hasya Rasin, female, born in 1876 [these are 3 out of several Jewish names on the list] ... were murdered in Chernigov in 1942 ...

... The men had been killed, only the women and children remained in a cold room, with the temperature [outside] standing at minus 40 degrees Celsius, waiting for their turn to be murdered. The murderers found a new way, they took 40 sleds from the village, the sleds remained there in front of the house until night. Members of the gendarmerie and the police arrived at night and began to take the women and children out of the house and put them onto the sleds. They did not give them any warm clothes. One could hear the screaming, shouting, and crying of the children. They were not allowed to take with them either blankets or pillows or even a piece of bread. Half naked, the children were taken at night to Chernigov, when the temperature was minus 40 degrees. In Chernigov the murderers stripped [their victims] and then put an end to the lives of the children, women, and old men, a total of as many as 500 people …