Murder story of Wilejka Jews in the Lipniki Forest

"At the end of July [1941], there was a round-up, in the fullest sense of the word, of Soviet civilians of Jewish nationality. Huge trucks raced across town, and [the Germans] threw members of the Jewish community – women, children, and elderly people – into them.… Among the children thrown into one truck, there was a boy named Misha, the son of a dentist who worked in the town's medical center. His mother, mad with grief, ran up and began to cry, pleading for her beloved only son to be released; her last name was Balashinskaia; her husband had a different last name, which I am unable to recall. Naturally, her plea was denied. She then asked the brutal perpetrators to do her the "favor" of taking her along with her son. The entire enormous group of doomed civilians was taken out of town to three trenches [pits] that had been dug in advance. It turned out that Balashinskaia's husband had been one of those who dug the trenches. There, all of them were shot and thrown into the pits."