Murder Story of Lenindorf Jews at the Silage Pits in the Lenindorf Area

… On October 2 [1941] a small murder squad arrived in Lenindorf village (its former name was Karabulat). All the Jews were forced into the school building, where they were so crowded there was hardly any room to stand, and on the 4th [of October] their execution started. In addition to the Jews, Ukrainians and Russians, about 200 of them, lived in the village…. The Jews and non-Jews worked together; there was no "national question" [i.e. ethnic problem]. For this reason it was all the more terrible that it was enough for a German officer to treat several healthy young [non-Jewish] men to vodka for them to eagerly become the executioners of their former teachers, friends, and good neighbors. Everything went according to plan: the Jews dug pits, the Germans shot the victims in the back of the head, and the [non-Jewish] neighbors leveled the "contents" of the pits in the most primitive way, by jumping in and trampling down the "contents." In 1961 a peasant woman told me that blood had been squeezed [from the ground] by the boots of those ["]laborers["], it was being pushed away but then flowed back. A basic principle was followed: there were separate pits for men and for women and children....