Murder Story of Talnoye Jews in Belashki

…On August 15, 1941, the following announcement was posted in Talnoye: "All the Jews must assemble for registration on August 16." The place and time [of the gathering] were specified. Our entire family came forward for the registration. With their characteristic thoroughness, the Germans registered all of us. We came of our own free will. After the registration, we were directed to the doors leading into the courtyard, [from] which we were taken, under guard, to a church. More and more people were arriving in the church; the assembled Jews were wondering what was going to happen: it was rumored that all of us would be taken to Uman for work. In the afternoon, all [of us] were taken in a column toward Uman. It was very hot, and the people walked very slowly; German soldiers with rifles were accompanying us on our left and right. A horse carrying a water barrel followed our column. Whoever lagged behind or stopped for a drink would be shot. We were led some distance from the town. The column was stopped and forced to turn into a field where the grain had been harvested. There was a GAZ truck parked in front of us, with four Maxim machine guns on it. The killers began to shoot the column of people with these guns. A terrible outcry arouse, with people running to and fro. I fell to the ground and began to crawl away through the harvested field, and [then] ran toward a stack of harvested grain. Many tried to hide behind the haycocks, but the Germans began to fire incendiary bullets, and the haycocks caught fire. A threshing machine was operating near the shooting site; it did not stop working even after the machine guns had started rattling. When the hay stacks began to burn, the working people [local peasants], wielding pitchforks and crying "The kikes are burning our grain!", assaulted the people [Jews] who were trying to avoid the bullets [of the machine guns]. I managed to escape; it took me two months to get to Tulchin, where the Romanians were….