Murder Story of Wiśniowiec Nowy Jews on the Poczajów Road

[On July 30, 1941] the Ukrainians [i.e. Ukrainian auxiliary policemen] … rounded up about 400 Jews, collected them at the "boulevard" [located] in the town center, and made them lie separately [rather than in a group], on the ground face down, after which they [Ukrainian policemen] tread on their backs with hob-nailed shoes and beat them with the heavy clubs they were holding in their hands. Any one of those [Jewish men] who [only] lifted their head to see whether this [torture] had ended or just to see what was going on, had a Ukrainian [policeman] immediately attack him, [on his way] stepping on the bodies [of other men]; this [victim] was severely beaten with a club. For a long time those Jews were left lying on the ground, wounded and bleeding, and expecting the worst to happen… When the human quota that had been imposed on them [i.e. Ukrainian auxiliary policemen] by the Germans had been filled, including with my older brother and the rabbi of the town Rabbi Yosef Erlich, all of them were taken on foot outside the town [and shot to death].…

… Several days afterward [i.e. on July 30, 1941], Ukrainian [auxiliary] policemen and Gestapo men conducted searches in the [Jewish] houses and abducted about 300 Jewish men. Their wives were told that [their] men were going to be taken for work. Among these kidnapped [Jewish men] there were three [prominent members] of the [Jewish] community [of the town] … ([including] Shaike Yakira and Lifshits); all of them were taken towards the trench [located] near the Romel estate [i.e. on the way leading to the town of Poczajόw (Nowy)]. [There] they [all] were shot to death and buried on the spot.…

[On July 30, 1941] … the Germans took over 200 [Jewish men], among them Dr. Yosef Tzinberg and the rabbi of the town, a very old and elegant Jew, toward [the town of] Poczajόw [Nowy] and on the way killed all of them. Before they were taken away, all 200 of them had been collected at the "boulevard" [in the town center] and forced to lie on the ground, with their arms behind their backs, … then the Ukrainians tread on their backs, … [and] danced [on their bodies] with their heavy shoes and beat them with clubs. Among those who were lying there beaten was my older brother Motel Sobol, I saw his suffering but I could not do anything. Before the subsequent death march Dr. Tzinberg was positioned, together with the rabbi [of the town], on the side of the boulevard. They [apparently the Germans] put the hat of Dr. Tzinbeg on the head of the rabbi - Dr. Tzinberg's hat covered his [the Rabbi's eyes] and, put on the had of Dr. Tzinberg the Rabbi's broad brim hat, which reached his [the Doctor's] neck. Handcuffs were attached to their tracheas … at some distance from them a Ukrainian [policeman] was standing and playing the concertina ,and both of them [the Jews] were made to dance to the tune of concertina. Among those 200 tortured [men], there was also Baruch Tenenboim, a son of Sander Halivorent. The father [i.e. Sander Halivorent] was standing near the house of Moshe Tenenboim, the leather store owner. When he [Sander] saw the suffering of his son, he approached [a German], asking that his son be returned to him; the German accepted [i.e., appeared to agree to] the request. He told him to return and stand near the wall of the Tenenboim store and to wait for his son. While the old man was standing there [near the store], hopeful that his request would be fulfilled, the Nazi shot a bullet between his eyes and killed him on the spot. … East of the "boulevard" there was an inn and a hotel owned by Israel Genip. There some Germans were sitting, resting on chairs at the entrance to the inn and giving orders to the Ukrainian [auxiliary policemen], who were carrying out the work. After two and a half hours, the people were made to stand up, surrounded by Ukrainian [auxiliary policemen] armed with sub-machine guns, and made to run in the direction of the [town of] Poczajów. The rabbi [of the town] was lagging behind the others. Two Ukrainians came up to him and tied a rope under his armpits and around his neck, and then tied [the other end of the] rope to a wagon. The horses began to gallop, pulling after them the old rabbi, who fell and was dragged behind the wagon with his blood streaming from his body… until he died. When the rabbi's wife saw that he did not return home, she ran around [the town] from one person to another, begging people to tell her where her husband was…. When [people] tried to comfort her by saying that he had been taken for work and would return in several days, she wept and asked: "How could he manage since he hadn't taken with him his prayer shawl and phylacteries?' Dr. Tzinberg was bleeding and also lagged behind during the march, but he was pushed along with rifle butts and then killed together with all of them [the other Jewish men] on the road to Poczajów.