Murder story of Brovary Jews in the Brovary Forest

…In the evening the Germans selected thirty men for work detail and they returned in the morning. Then a correspondent and a photographer turned up and they took pictures chiefly of half-naked and starving prisoners, with the aim of using the pictures to illustrate how the Soviet army looked. After the photographer left, another large group of prisoners was taken away. It turned out that they were digging broad ditches near the camp. The job took three days. On the fourth day, they lined up all the Jews on the edge of a forest near the ditches. Corpses could already be seen at the bottom. Then they began to machine gun the prisoners. Those still standing were struck with gun butts and flung into the pit. Comrade Giterman also fell into the pit, half-dead. All the day he lay unconscious. It was already dark when he came to. The pits were still uncovered. Cries, moans, and the wheezing that comes before death could be heard. Blood was oozing from Comrade Giterman's leg. He bound his wound with a rag from his shirt as best as he could and began to clamber carefully across the bodies of the dead and half-dead. Suddenly, though he stumbled: it seemed to him that someone in the heap was pulling him by the leg. He awoke at dawn. He put on a sweater that he had hidden beneath his trousers and set off down the road...