Murder Story of Babinovichi Jews on the Bank of the Verkhita River in Babinovichi

... One day at the end of September or at the beginning of October, 1941 the Hitlerites selected young, healthy men of Jewish nationality who remained in Babinovichi and took them to a slope at the edge of the local civilian (general) cemetery. There is no need to say that none of them were told they were being taken to be shot… Even when they were ordered to take shovels with them, they concluded they were being taken to work. Nina Novikova, who was born in 1928, remembers: "They were 16 or 17 men. A doctor named Ruman was among them. Why do I remember him in particular? We needed a doctor but he was no longer allowed to come to us." The first shooting was carried out by Germans. Then the policemen brought some peasants and forced them to cover over the grave. Although everyone in Babinovichi knew about the shooting, those who covered the grave were also executed, - these witnesses to the crime were liquidated in a criminal manner....