Murder story of Wydranica Jews in the Wydranica Forest

[Question]: How many people were shot to death [near the village]? [Answer]: About 30 people, as many as 40. [Question]: Were they mainly young people? [Answer]: No, there were people of different ages… There were elderly and also young people. [Question]: Tell me please, were they simply shot to death in the trench [i.e. pit] or had someone dug the pit before it [the shooting]? [Answer]: The men from our village were forced to come here [to the pit] and they dug the pit … [Question]: Tell me please, do you remember the exact date when it [the shooting] took place? [Answer]: No, but it was on a Sunday in September…. Our Ukrainian [auxiliary] policemen …from our region, drove [the Jews] to the murder site…. Our village elder himself shot some of the Jews. [Question]: So they dug out the pit – was it a large one …? [Answer]: Well, it was … about 10 meters long, … and about 2 meters wide. [Question]: Who shot [the Jews]? [Answer]: In general the [German] policemen shot a great deal.… [Question]: Were they [the Jews] forced to strip naked near the pit…? [Answer]: Yes, they had to strip naked near the pit. They were all completely naked.… [Question]: The men from the village, were they the ones who covered the pit again [after the shooting], right? [Answer]: Yes, the same men covered [the pit]. [Question]: Where was the clothing [of Jews] taken? [Answer]: They loaded it onto trucks … [on the day of the murder operation] at dawn Germans and [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen arrived [in the village]… there were only several Germans. They [Germans] would shoot several people, then they would drink a bit, then they would shoot the next ones…. There were four Jewish boys who used to bring their cows to graze [near] our village, two were from [the town of] Ratno and two were locals, they went to school with me…. [their names were] Yosko and Zisko Primak.… They were twins…. [When being taken to be shot] they shouted: 'Goodbye" … and the two [from Ratno] also shouted: "Goodbye."