Murder Story of Pologi Jews at the Fat Boiling Facility near Pologi

... In December 1941 a mass shooting of the Pologi [Jewish] population was perpetuated. .. The Jewish population was not ordered to gather voluntarily but the police went to Jewish homes during the night and forced the Jews to go to a barn in a cattle yard. In the morning they were taken 1.5–2 kilometers out of town to a trench. There they were ordered to undress and to remain only in their underwear. They were people of different ages -- old people, women, and children, as well as people with different occupations. They were all lined up next to the trench and shot with submachine-guns. The bodies fell into the trench and remained unburied. Almost all the local police staff of Pologi was present at the shooting and participated in it. After that shooting, mass ones continued everyday. [People] were caught in the streets or taken from their homes without any semblance of trial and then taken to the trench ,where they were shot…. Today, September 24, 1943, I was present at a meeting of the commission of postmortem examiners. We initially estimated that there were more than 500 bodies in the trench, the upper ones were waring their regular clothes and were, apparently, of different nationalities - Russian, Ukranian…, while the lower layer consisted mostly of Jews wearing only their underwear.… The bodies that were found were buried between 1941 and the summer of 1943....