Murder Story of Lubieszów Jews on the Pripyat River Bank in Lubieszów

… On August 15, 1942 the Gebietskommissar of Kamień Koszyrski [Fritz] Michaelis arrived in the town of Lubieszów, together with 85 [men] from the Gestapo, the Gendarmerie, and the [Ukrainian auxiliary] police; they surrounded the ghetto and began to murder the Jews. On that day, August 15, 1942, as many as 2,230 Jewish civilians were shot to death or killed by being struck with the butts of weapons [this took place'] in different locations, [including] beyond Lubiaż village… … The committee also established that the main perpetrators of the mass annihilation of the [Jewish] residents of Lubieszów County were the Gebietskommissar of Kamień Koszyrski Michaelis and his accomplices, the Ukrainian auxiliary police….

We, the undersigned… established [the following]: 2. … that… the annihilation of the civilians on the territory of Lubieszów County was carried out under the leadership of the Gebietskommissar of Kamień Koszyrski [Fritz] Michaelis and his accomplices…. 3. … the mass annihilation of the civilians on the territory of Lubieszów County was carried out by the German Fascist occupiers and their accomplices at different times and in different locations, namely: … near … the village of Lubiaż….

… In August 1941 [sic for 1942], 25-30 [Jews] were sent near the village of Szlapan to build a bridge [over the Pripyat River], and after the bridge had been completed, the Germans forced those people to swim in the river and then shot them to death in the river with machine-guns. There near the river they made local peasants dig pits and bury the shooting victim. I examined went this grave where the shooting victims were buried. The size [of the pits] was no more than 4 x 4 [meters].

… Besides [in August 1942] as many as 25 [Jewish men] were sent to the village of Lubiaż to build a bridge over the Pripyat River. After the construction of the bridge was completed, they were forced to strip naked and enter the water. There in the water [river] they were shot to death. Before this, they were abused by being forced to sing and dance, etc. …