Murder Story of Yaltushkov Jews in Migalevtsy

"…On August 20, 1942, everyone was herded off to the railroad station. They had to walk about four kilometers, and rifle butts were used to hurry the children and feeble old people. Everyone was ordered to undress… I saw the scraps of clothing and underwear. The Germans were economizing on bullets; they stood people four deep and then shot. The living were buried alive. Before being thrown into the pit, small children were ripped to shreds. That’s how they killed my little Niusenka. A group of children, among them my own daughter, was shoved into the pit and covered up with earth…"

…In August 1942, at dawn, the Jews of Yaltushkov were driven to the market square and divided into two groups. Some were taken to the village of Margalivtsy [Migalevtsy] and shot there; the wounded and those half-alive were buried together with the dead… On October 15, 1942, at dawn, all the Jews were driven to the small square. My mother ordered me to hide in the attic of the house, believing that they would return. I was joined by the daughter of our neighbors, who was my age. We held our breath and stayed there for the whole day, almost without moving. We heard people who were trying to hide in cellars and other places being taken outside. Late in the evening we heard the voices of policemen sitting on a bench under our house, right under the place in the attic where we were hiding. Suddenly the girl could not suppress a cough any longer. One of the policemen fired in our direction: the girl was hit in the stomach and started to cry. The policemen climbed up to the attic and threw us down from there. We were taken to the building of a former savings bank, where there were already 35 people in one room. We learned from one of the policemen that the next day we were going to be sent to Bar, where we were going to be shot with the rest of the Jews. At night people suggested to me that since I was small I could try to squeeze through the iron bars of the window. I tried and succeeded. Reaching the outskirts [of the town],I got to our house and hid in the reeds in the water near the well…

"…On October 15, 1942 all those who were still alive, who had not been beaten or .... starved to death in the village of Yaltushkovo [Yaltushkov] were shot to death. The two [mass] graves are located 4 kilometers from the village of Yaltushkovo [Yaltushkov] and 1 kilometer from the village of Mygalivtsy [Migalevtsy]….