Murder story of Kupiczow Jews in the Sushibaba Clay Pit

… two or three days after the shooting of the Jews [of Kowel] at the quarry of Bachów Mountain and at the Jewish cemetery, we, [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen went on two trucks, headed by the chief of the Ukrainian auxiliary battalion [i.e. the chief of Kowel's German urban order police] a German named [Fritz] Manthei, toward the village of Ozeryany. Several hundred Jews, somewhere about 400, were guarded in the houses in the village. They were brought there from the town of Maciejów [sic] and other localities. The Jews were shot to death near the village of Sushibaba; they were taken in groups to the pits, striped [naked], and shot to death, …. with machine-guns. Besides the adult Jews, there were many children, but they were not spared. The shooting was headed by …. Manthei and the head of Kowel's regional [Ukrainian auxiliary] police [Fyodor] Shabatura. After the shooting the belongings of the Jews were loaded onto trucks and we went to the city of Kowel. This time as well, I didn't shoot Jews, I [only] accompanied and guarded them in order to prevent them from running away from the shooting site. All 400 Jews were shot to death: no escapes took plsvr. All the [moveable] property of the Jews who had been shot to death was sold to the stores. The bodies of the Jews were covered [with earth] by residents of the villages of Ozeryany, Sushibaba and Maciejów. …

Two days after the murder of the Jews in [the city of] Kowel I, together with 25 [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen, went to the village of Ozeryany to shoot the Jews. By the time we arrived by truck in the village, the Jews there had been alreday gathered in one place; there were several hundred of them. On the order of the Gebietskommissar [of the Kowel District, i.e. Erich Kassner], we policemen took all the Jews to a pit in the field, we gave the Jews shovels to deepen the pit. When they had dug a big pit, the Jews were taken in groups of 5 to the pit, where they were shot to death at the hands of Gebietskommissar [Erich] Kassner, [Fyodor] Shabatura [chief of Kowel's Ukrainian auxiliary police], and [Fritz] Manthei [chief of the German urban order police of Kowel]. ...