Murder Story of Vinnitsa Jews at the Tyazhilov Brick Factory

… [During the night] between September 18 and 19, 1941 at 3 a. m. German and [local] policemen started to go through the Jewish apartments in the Zamostye area. All the elderly and the women and children were driven out of their apartments and taken to [a collection] point at Kotsyubinskiy Avenue, No. 96. At 8 a. m. two large German trucks arrived and the people were loaded onto them and taken to a sand [quarry] near the Tyazhilovo [Tyazhilov] (brick factory). At 10 a. m. the transport stopped. All those whom the Germans had not managed to take away were sent away [home]. The people who were taken to the area of the Tyazhilovo [Tyazhilov] (brick factory) were surrounded by Germans, the graves were ready. A selection started: the elderly and the women were put together (into one column), the rest (youngsters?)-into the second column, and the children-into the third column. A Gestapo officer ordered everyone to strip naked. The Gestapo men piled the clothes in a single pile. The first column was shot by machine-gun fire at the pit; some people from the first column survived. 50 women were ordered by the Gestapo commander to enter the pits alive. All those who refused to comply with this order were thrown into the pit and were buried alive in the pit. The second column was shot in the pit [although] some of these people were cut in half with swords. The third column, the children's one, [was killed] by lethal injections…Some of the children were killed by having their heads smashed against the ground or against trees… [or] were torn apart…