Murder Story of Kilikiyev Jews at the Kilikiyev Jewish Cemetery

When the Germans captured the town, a Jewish teacher of the German language, asked a [German] officer whether it was true that the Germans were going to shoot the Jews to death. The officer shook his head negatively. Some time afterwards [i.e. in early August 1941], the residents [of Kilikiyev] realized that he was lying: the village was surrounded by a Fascist murder squad that began a murder operation directed against the Jewish-men. They were driven to a shed of the local school building and held there for 24 hours [sic, over night]. Early the next day they were all taken out of the shed to a field out of town. There the Jews were made to dig a pit. We heard shooting from rifles and sub-machine guns and the screaming and moaning of those who were [only] wounded. Fascists and [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen finished off those who were still alive, throwing them into the mass grave and covering [all the victims] with earth. The residents of the town [including the above-mentioned eyewitnesses] who went to work in the field stopped near the mass grave of the Jews who had been shot to death. We saw a terrible sight: puddles of human blood and the bodies of the dead could be seen inside the pit… .