Murder Story of Novaya Priluka Jews at the Novaya Priluka Church

… The first pogrom took place about a week after the entry of the Germans. They gathered about 20-30 men. By "men" I mean from 10 year-old boys to white-bearded elders. This was truly a pogrom…. Thus, on that day the Germans collected these men and forced them to a church, where they forced them to tread on earth [mixed] with glass. This was [as follows]: they poured water onto the ground and threw shards of glass there; then they ordered [the Jews] to take off [their] shoes and to step on all this barefoot. Those who refused were beaten with clubs and rifle-butts. Some did step on this. There ensued terrible screaming. The relatives [of the victims] came to this place: generally many of people came. The Germans did not drive anyone away. I too wanted to run there but my mother did not let me. In this way the Germans tortured all those men to death; they didn't shoot anyone. The bodies were thrown into trenches - there were border trenches there, which were then covered over with earth. The Ukrainians started to complain about the bad smell … the Germans forced Jews to take away the bodies and to bury them in the cemetery. Wives dug up [the bodies] of [their] husbands, mothers - of [their] sons….