Murder Story of Stołpce Jews on the Zajamno Road

…We heard noises coming from the town [of Stołpce] and saw fire.… Father told us, the children: "They are killing Jews. Lie down on the ground and press your ears to the earth. You will hear what is going on".… I got up from the ground and said: "I cannot listen to that, daddy; it is horrible." Father said: "They are killing people. Some of those [lying] in the pit are still alive and groaning, and this sound is being transmitted through the earth." A neighbor came up and said that the ghetto was burning, and that the Germans had taken all the Jews away: from the elderly people to the little babies. They were driven in cars in the direction of the village of Zayamno, 3 or 4 kilometers from our village; ditches had been dug there; they lined them up in rows in front of the ditches and shot them with machine guns.… I don’t remember the exact date now, because more than fifty years have gone by.… Like my late father, I look Jewish. My mother is Belorussian. My father's foster parents were Belorussians. He did not know who his biological parents were.