Murder story of Fastov Jews in the Veprik Forest

…Approximately in November 1941 county policemen forced residents of the town of Fastov, mainly Jews, to work harvesting potatoes. After this work, the Jews, about 35 of them, mostly women, were collected separately. Policemen from the Fastov County police took the Jews aside and surrounded them. Several policemen entered the circle of people and, before everyone's eyes, started to rape the women; after that they started to whip [the Jews] and, finally, murder the exhausted people with rifle butts and stab them to death with bayonets. Those still alive were taken to the forest, where a pit had been prepared, and were murdered there at the edge of the pit. The place where these murders of the Jewish population were carried out is 4 kilometers from the town of Fastov, on the road to the village of Dedovshchina…

…[I] was responsible for mass arrests of the Jewish population. My policemen abused them in all possible ways, tortured them, beat them, and raped the women. Ultimately, together with [members of ] the German Gestapo, [they] shot the entire Jewish population of the town of Fastov and of Fastov County, those who did not manage to hide from the German authorities. All those arrests and shootings of the Jewish population were carried out in August 1941. The shooting site [was in] the Veprik Forest, about 3 kilometers from the town of Fastov…

…On one occasion about 20 Jews were sent to the police by the German commandant's office and I was told to send them to dig potatoes in the village of Veprik. I assigned a policeman, who took them to the working place. On the same day some Germans, accompanied by the policeman whom I had assigned [earlier], went by car to the place of their work and shot all the Jews there on the spot…

In about September 1941 my policemen arrested approximately 20 people from among the Jewish population of the town of Fastov. Initially they were held at the police [station] and then they were sent to dig up potatoes in the village of Veprik, where they worked for seven days. One day some Germans arrived by car and took policemen from my police [station] to shoot the Jews who had been digging up potatoes. During the same evening my policemen Belenchuk, Silenko, and others, together with the Germans, shot all those Jews…

…20 people [Jews] were forced to dig up potatoes near [the agricultural] colony of Veprik. After they finished the work, they dug [i.e. were forced to dig] a pit [grave] for themselves, and were shot there…