Murder story of Luboml Jews in the Borki Forest

… On Wednesday toward evening, the Gendarmerie [German rural order police] and [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen suddenly began to arrest women and young girls. All of them were taken to the [Gebiets] kommissar [i.e. Uhde]'s office. There they were concentrated in one place, then they [Germans] caught [another] approximately 300 women and girls and about 100 men who were [i.e., believed they were] safe since they had work permits. Jews ran to the Judenrat, bringing gold and other precious items. Kalman [Kopelzon, the head of the Judenrat] rushed to the [Gebiets] kommissar, who took the gold and promised that they would be released in two days. But only several Jews were released. The rest were taken to the [Borki] Forest, where pits had been prepared. They were shot to death near [these] pits. Non-Jews who were living not far from the forest said that they heard the crying and screaming of the unfortunate victims … .

… the Germans were going from house to house [searching for Jews] … looking again and again. It took them a week [sic] to collect 650 people. In order to complete their quota [of Jews] they also took old people and women … . For example, my grandfather, who wasn't taken the previous time, during the first murder operation, because he was too old …. The second time they took him. My aunt, who was in the village – they took [as well]. …They [the Jews] were loaded onto trucks but no one knew where they were taken. …It turned out that they were taken… two kilometers outside of town, to the forest called Borki, which was [also] the name of the village near this forest, and they were murdered there, in the Borki Forest. …