Murder Story of Grozovo Jews in the Grozovo Forest

... In September 1941, the Germans, with assistance from the Gressk police, drove the entire Jewish population into a ghetto in a small former military town. The Jews were confined in the ghetto until December 18, 1941, subsisting on starvation rations. The Germans then loaded the Jews into trucks and drove them to two pre-prepared pits in the forest. They ordered the Jews to climb into the pits, shoulders up, shot them, and then put [the next groups into the pit] together, row by row, like sardines. The children were thrown into the pits and buried alive. For several hours afterwards, the soil could be seen moving with the breath of the children buried alive ....