Murder story of Vinkovtsy Jews in the Stanislavovka Ravine

It was May…. I remember that in the evening of May 8 my mother couldn't get enough of looking at the flowers…. And on the morning of May 9 policemen drove everybody to the square and then lined them up in one column; suddenly a murder squad appeared, surrounded the crowd, and took them to pits that had been prepared ahead of time. Those who were slow on their way [to the murder site] were shot to death. My grandfather was killed in this way. The whole way to the pit was covered with the bodies of victims. Near the pits [the Jews] in groups of 4-5 were made to take off their clothes and forced into the pit, where they were shot to death. Another group was pushed on top of these bodies and, also in groups of 4-5, they were shot to death until the last one. They were stripped and forced into the pit with rifle butts! Then an explosion was heard, that is how the pits were covered, this was on May 9, 1942. My parents and my grandfather were murdered in this way. It was Sabbath and all that day long it was raining. The clothes of the victims were loaded onto trucks and then taken to Germany. There were some eyewitnesses who happened to be in the forest [the murder site] … and later they told us everything.… The [Ukrainian] policemen collected the remaining Jews and made them move the bodies, clear the road, dig a pit and throw the bodies into it. The body of my grandfather was found. Some Jews knocked quietly at my door, I… let them in. They wanted me to give them my grandfather's shroud, at least to bury him in the shroud since he was particularly honored by the Jewish population [of the town].