Murder story of Oszmiana Jews in the Rojsty Forest

During the third week [after the arrival of the Germans], the following took place: soldiers and policemen entered Jewish homes and began to drive all the young men to one place. In that place, they passed them through a gauntlet of Poles. If any Pole bore a grudge against a particular Jew, he pointed out that Jew and accused him of being a Bolshevik. This Jew would be taken aside and forced to kneel down. In this way, the Poles settled many scores stemming from petty personal conflicts. In reality, the people who could have been accused of pro-Bolshevik sympathies had left the town much earlier. This selection was accompanied by whistling, laughing, pushing, and abusing. Finally, when the ceremony was over, armed soldiers escorted the several hundred men to the synagogue building. They were held in this building under guard throughout the night, and in the morning they were driven in trucks in the direction of Lida.