Murder story of Baranovka Jews in the Baranovka Swampy Area

The most terrible thing began on August 28, 1941. At sunrise, there were knocks on peoples' windows, and the men were ordered to assemble on the pretext that "the kikes were going to choose a leader." My father went along. All of them [the assembled men] were thrown into the basement of the former prison, where they were beaten. I was told by a witness, who had been released from there to be sent to work, that my father had been severely beaten with clubs and pushed from one executioner to another. They were then taken away to be shot. The murder site was swampy. The pit that had been dug there immediately filled up with water. My father and some other men were thrown into it alive, and the rest were then shot on top of them. The pit was poorly covered, and we heard rumors that the bodies had been dug up by dogs. Together with a few other people, I took the risk of sneaking up to that place. The pit was indeed poorly covered, and the victims' belongings were scattered about. These had been left by the Jews prior to the shooting, to enable their relatives to identify them and the execution site….