Murder Story of Borovka Jews at the Borovka Hospital

…Many Jews were living in Borovka village (where I was born), 10 kilometers from our town [Chernevtsy]. Among them were my mother's three brothers with their families. When the Germans entered Borovka they ordered all the Jews to come to a meeting on the outskirts of the village. When all of them had assembled, three machine-guns were aimed at them and the shooting started. In this way all of Borovka's Jews were shot dead. There were perhaps a thousand of them or, probably, even more. Only a few people escaped the shooting. They ran away and hid among the stalks of corn that were growing nearby. At night, when it was quiet, they ran in order to arrive in Chernevtsy before dawn. That night 16 people, Jews who had fled from Borovka, came to our house. My mother's brother and his wife were among them. That night I heard from them about the terrible tragedy of Borovka Jews. Mother's brother told [us] that, while hiding among the stalks of corn, he and his wife saw how their two daughters and all our other relatives were killed. Mother's brother, Srul Kasyanskiy and his wife, Chaika Kasyanskaya, told [us] that they saw with their own eyes how the Germans, assisted by [local] policemen, threw all the Jews who had been shot into a pit. This pit had obviously been dug in advance. Those who had been wounded but were still alive were thrown into the pit together with the dead. Afterwards local Ukrainian residents said that the pit was heaving for several days after the murder operation. Its surface was rising and sinking…