Murder Story of Vyazovok Jews at the Ogrudok Tract

…A second case of shooting of Jews took place two weeks after the first one [the mass-shooting of the Jews of Petrovski County, in March 1942] in 1942, also near the village of Vyazovok, 500 meters from the village at the Ogrudok Tract. The second time 13 Jews were shot, most of whom were women, elderly people, or small children. There were 5 children age 5… the Jewish residents of Vyazovok village were taken …and led under guard to the Ogrudok Tract, where a pit had been dug and where the Jews were lined up. The shooting from semi-automatic weapons and rifles followed the order of the policeman Grigori Koval. Afterwards [the bodies of] the Jews who had been shot were thrown haphazardly into the pit…

… One day in 1942, in the spring, I do not remember the month, at about 4 a.m., I went out of my house onto the street and witnessed policemen leading 13 Jews at gunpoint past my house. After they passed my house, the policemen shot these Jews 100 meters from my house…. I saw with my own eyes Alexey Bondar, Maksim Kucher, Fedot Salo, Grigori Miroshnik, Evdokim Mits, Fedor Litvin, Ivan Gruy, Evdokim Lukyanovich Mits, Vasiliy Puaks, Roman Garashchenko, Ivan Derkach, Pavlo Shchur, and other [auxiliary policemen] guarding the Jews past me. All the Jews, including elderly women and small nursing infants, were shot with rifles by the policemen at a pit that had been dug…. I saw them [the Jews] being taken to be shot, but when all the Jews had been brought to the pit and the shooting started, I could not watch this. Only when all the Jews had been shot and the shooting had stopped, did I see the policemen going [back] to the village, while some of them, like Roman Garashchenko [and] Grigorii Miroshnik, were carrying two bundles with outer clothing taken from the Jews who had been shot to death….