Murder Story of Shumyachi Jews at the Shumyachi Brick Factory

Some elderly men were taken by vehicle. The Germans announced that all the Jews with impaired vision or hearing were required to report in order to be sent to "a sanitarium." A number of old people believed what they had been told in and showed up. Their fate remains unknown….Three months after the occupation began, in November 1941 the Jews of Shumyachi were shot. At 4 a.m. the Jews were taken from the ghetto via Bazarnaya Street to the outskirts of Shumyachi to the Gayudin trench. German submachine-gunners were riding in two trucks on both sides of the column. The shooting site was guarded on all sides. No one was allowed to approach the site. Moaning and shouting were heard all over the place. The column [of Jews] was shot immediately: those killed and those wounded fell into a pit that had been dug by prisoners of war. The latter covered over the pit.