Murder story of Zabrodzie Jews in the Zabrodzie Area

[Question]: Tell me please, can you remember on which date it [the shooting] took place? [Answer]: … It was in the fall [of 1942]. I don't remember the exact date or month, but I know it was in the fall.… [Question]: Were they [the victims] shot to death just like that or was there a pit that had been dug by someone? [Answer]: … men [residents of Zabrodzie] dug it [the pit].… [Question]: So men were taken from the village to dig this pit? [Answer]: Yes…. [Question]: Tell me, please, were they [the Jews] stripped naked or were they shot to death in their clothes? [Answer]: No, they were not stripped naked. I saw it [the shooting] with my own eyes. [Question]: You saw them being shot to death? [Answer:] Yes, of course. [Question]: Who was shooting them - [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen or Germans? [Answer]: … Germans. One German with a pistol was standing above the pit [and shooting the Jews] one after the other. They were taken [to the pit] one by one … [among them there was] one man, his name was Yankel, he had a family… [before being taken to the shooting] his wife left their little girl on the top of the oven [a warm place in a house to rest or sleep…. [Question]: Tell me, approximately how many people were shot to death? [Answer]: … I know that there were more than 30…. So this man [Yankel] and his wife left their little daughter… and they, I saw this with my own eyes, hugged each other… covered themselves with a shawl and entered the pit [together]. [After the shooting] men covered the pit - the same men who dug the pit were also forced to cover it - they said that when they were throwing earth on top of them [the victims] the earth was heaving….