Murder story of Belaya Tserkov Jews at the Military Barracks at the Belaya Tserkov Market Place

In mid-August 1941, the day after the Russian breakthrough near Uman on the Dnieper, I, Fritz Scheibner, witnessed the following atrocities: My unit, the 194th Motorized Company for the Maintenance of the [field] Slaughterhouses [for food supplies] of the 94th Infantry Division was put on alert. In the morning I and many of my comrades saw our unit’s commander going with a detachment of 8 soldiers to a building in the Belaya Tserkov’s market place. Being curious, we ran right into the courtyard. Apparently there Jews who had allegedly maintained radio contact with the Russians and, thus, facilitated a Russian breakthrough at the front, were to be shot. The rumors [about the shooting] proved to be correct. German-speaking Ukrainians [?] carried out the murders, shooting the victims in the back of the head. Apparently the murderers were from Siberian units [?]. 12-14 people 40-50 years old were shot to death in about half an hour. The 18-19 year old SS gangsters forced the Jewish men into trenches and shot the people at will. This provoked a protest on the part of the soldiers. One major stopped two SS men and asked them who had issued such an order. The answer was: “We recognize only a Fuehrer’s order”…