Murder story of Urechye Jews in the Forest at the Slutsk Road

# 78 In mid-May 1942, between 2-4 AM, the Fourth Company, which I belonged to, was given the alarm and marshaled, armed and ready. Upon the orders of the company commander…, some of the staff were sent to surround the village of Urechye, so that none of the local civilians could get in or out of the village. The rest of the staff, two platoons…, were sent to herd the Jewish civilians out of their homes and assemble them in the square. Local Russian <sic> policemen were also involved in the operation. As soon as the entire Jewish population, 700-800 people in total, were assembled, the cordon around the village was removed, and the whole company, together with the local police, marched the civilian population to the edge of the forest 3-4 kilometers north of Urechye, where shooting pits had been dug in advance. The civilians were forced into the forest and ordered to strip naked; they were then herded to the edge of the trench in groups of about thirty, and shot with submachine and machine guns.… The shooting of 700-800 Jewish civilians from the village of Urechye lasted from about 6-7 AM to 10-12 in the afternoon. The trenches dug in advance for the shooting were 50 meters long, 3-4 meters wide, and 2 meters deep.