Murder Story of Pukhovichi Jews at the Pukhovichi Jewish Cemetery

... One morning during the second half of August 1941, a punitive expedition of the SS, including Germans, Finns and a translator, came to the town of Pukhovichi. They stopped near the local administrative building. The group numbered close to 100. At the order of the head of the town, the Pukhovichi policemen, including the head of the local police Aleksandr Goncharik, as well as Nikolai Mayevskiy and Fedor Mayko, approached the head of punitive expedition (I do not remember his name). A table and chairs were brought out of the building. The [members of the] punitive expedition split up and the hunt of Pukhovichi’s Jewish men began. Those caught were lined up—95 men in total, including one thirteen-year-old. During and following the manhunt, a column was formed, and the Jews were mocked and beaten. Many of their faces and arms were covered with blood. The Germans brought them one after the other to the table and asked them something. I do not know what exactly, but the questions were brief. After the investigation, each one had to kneel before the seated [Germans]; they struck him on the back of his head and dragged him back to the column. After that, they were loaded onto trucks. While they were being loaded, [the Germans] hit the arms of the Jews to stop them touching the sides of the trucks. They brought the Jewish men to the Pukhovichi cemetery in three groups, where they were all shot. Two non-Jewish women were also shot. Their grave is located a stone’s throw away from the Jewish cemetery ....