Murder Story of Gritsev Jews in the Lake in Gritsev

According to one testimony, shortly after the occupation of the town the Germans took a group of Jewish men and drowned them in the town lake. Those who knew how to swim and had made their way to the surface of the lake were immediately struck on the head with oars by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen in boats. Ten men died; only one managed to survive. After several days the bodies of the victims were found when they rose to the surface of the lake. The Germans and the Ukrainian policemen didn't allow the Jews to bury the victims; instead they took the bodies and buried them elsewhere outside the town. The Jews managed to bury only 3 of the men at the Jewish cemetery.