Murder Story of Izyaslav Jews in the Anti-Tank Trenches in Poboy

In August 1941, according to one testimony on the Sabbath, early in the morning the Jews, mainly women, children, or elderly, were driven out of their homes by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen. The Jews were told to take all their valuables with them on the pretext that they were going to be sent to Palestine. After being collected, the people were loaded onto trucks and taken to anti-tank trenches on the Poboy tract in the forest near the town. There the victims were made to strip naked and taken in groups to pits. They were made to lie face down in the pits and shot to death in the back by members of Police Regiment South and some Ukrainian policemen. Each group was forced to lie on top of the previous victims and killed the same way. The shooting lasted until nightfall. After the shooting the pits with the bodies were covered with earth.