Murder Story of Sebezh Jews at the Sebezh Veterinary Clinic

In 1942, in the springtime, the new town commandant shot the Jews. The Jews were collected and taken to the shooting site. In spite of it being winter, pits had been dug. Probably it was prisoners of war who dug them. It was the police, headed by police chief Buss, who shot the Jews. People say that at the time of the shooting Buss grabbed a 3-4 month-old baby, threw him upwards, and shot him in the air with his gun, saying: "the kike's blood should not defile the Russian land." The baby fell straight into the pit.…[Local] Russians were forced to bury the [Jewish] shooting victims. One of the participants [sic] said that some of those shot were only wounded, some were merely scratched, but all of them were buried. Groaning was heard from under the ground for half an hour. The weather was very cold, i.e., -10 to -15 C. Of the Jews only some old people, women, and children, as well as several young women, remained in Sebezh. Many Jews were taken to the shooting site with their young children.