Murder Story of Velizh Jews at the Velizh Former Dairy Factory

Every morning trucks from the German commandant's office arrived in the ghetto. They took 20-30 inmates to work. During the day they [the prisoners] did various maintenance jobs around town, as well as in German offices. After that, in the evening, the Germans would take them to a trench near the dairy factory, where they shot them. After a certain period of time the Fascists arrived in the ghetto and selected groups of people and took them to the trench near the dairy factory, where they were shot. Those in the ghetto already knew that the Fascists were taking the Jews to be shot, so they did not leave the pigsties [where they were being held] when the Fascists arrived. Then the Fascists took everybody out and lined them up; they took some of them out of the line and then shot them. At the trench near the dairy factory a cruel massacre was carried out of a group of Jewish girls. There were several dozen of them. The executioners forced the girls to strip almost naked (it was at the end of November) and shot all of them with a heavy machine-gun that was set up in one of the windows of the dairy factory.

April 9, 1943 The young women were taken soon after the men had been shot. They pleaded and screamed while being taken along the town's streets to the shooting site. In spite of this the Germans beat them with their rifle butts and forced them toward the pits that had been dug. There they were shot in the town, in a trench near the former dairy factory. They were 50 in number.