Murder story of Lwow Jews in the Lysynychi Forest

If my memory is not playing tricks on me, the night between August 6 and 7, 1941, which resembled the St. Bartholomew's night massacre, was marked by mass arrests among the intelligentsia in the city center and among the burgeosie in the suburbs. The arrests proceeded according to lists of names. However, if someone managed to avoid [these arrests], the police did not return for him. We know of several such cases. This means that it was a mass terror operation and not the oppression of individuals. In this sense, the Gestapo operation resembled NKVD operations. The traces of 41 people arrested in the night between August 6 and 7 disappeared, just as did those the ones of people taken away during "the Petliura Days." Generally, people are disappearing in an incomprehensible way. It is not known where they are being taken. Undoubtedly, the people are being violently murdered. The place of the mass executions is a sand quarry near Lisinitsa (Lysynychi)....

December 10, 1941: A 3-ton truck is entering the small Wybranowski [Wybran] Street in the Jewish quarter of Zamarstynow. Ukrainian policemen are jumping out of it, scattering among the houses and, after a moment,...cries, weeping, wailing and screams can be heard, occasionally interrupted by [the sound of] whippings and blunt blows of rifle buts against bodies. There the Ukrainian archmurderers have come for new victims. The "old peoples' operation" [i.e. the operation to kill old people] is in full sway. I am standing at the window watching. A Ukrainian policeman drives an old woman out of the gate of one of the houses. Without an overcoat, she is shivering from fear and from the cold. She wants to cover her unkempt hair with a kerchief but the blow of a rifle-but knocks her to the ground. She is struggling to stand up but another blow to her head knocks her down again. A second murderer runs up and, by their combined effort, they [the two murderers] lift the old woman and throw her, like a sack of potatos, onto a truck. The next moment someone is leading a woman of about 40. A child, apparently 8 years old, is running after her wailing terribly "Mama, mama!" But the mother is already sitting on the truck. Some distance away one of the murderers is dragging "something" through the snow. I look closely and it is a man, an old man, probably about 70. Apparently he cannot walk on his own or fear has paralyzed his limbs. The Ukrainian murderer has found a way to bring him to the truck. He is simply dragging him by his legs along the crusty snow. In this way the truck is slowly filled up. About 30 people are on it. The policemen are gathering, jumping onto the truck, and "pacifying" their "passengers" with rifle-butts, sticks, and bayonets. The noise of the engine is heard. The vehicle is moving. The squeezed together, half-conscious, bleeding, beaten Jews are leaving...probably to a better world. And in the houses on that street those remaining are mourning their dear ones. They will not return from the sands....