Murder story of Talka Jews in the Forest in the Talka Area

In September 1941 in the settlement of Talka the German occupation authorities, together with members of the local police force, collected all the Jewish population of about 300 people and set up a [concentration] camp for them. The Germans did not give the Jews anything to eat and almost every day forced them to work at railroad construction sites, etc. About at the end of September or early October [1941] the Germans, together with policemen, surrounded the camp and the leadership of the German authorities ordered the police to carry out the organized shooting of the Jewish population. [Among the others] there were children from the age of 1 to 15 and very old people. Before the Germans started shooting, they expressed to the Jews their hatred of them while praising their own race. The shooting was carried out as follows: the men were placed in one row and the women in another and then 15 people were taken to a pit and made to lie down there. Then they were shot from above. Approximately 300 people were shot in that way.