Murder Story of Berislav Jews at a Slaughterhouse near Berislav

... In 1941, on August 28 [sic, the Germans occupied Berislav on August 23] German occupiers entered our town Berislav. After 2-3 days the Germans summoned all the Jews, including my dear ones, to the commandant's office, supposedly to receive bread rations. My father and mother with their 3 younger children went to the indicated collection point. However, the Germans kept all the Jews there until late in the evening and, then, took them outside the town to a large ditch and started to shoot these people who had been exhausted by the scorching heat and hunger. At that time, an 8-year old girl, I succeeded in escaping this horror by a miracle (I was motivated by the need to protect my two brothers who had remained at home and did not go to get the bread). The Germans did not realize that I was Jewish. They thought that I was a [non-Jewish local] girl who, like the other children, had come out of curiosity to see the horror...