Murder Story of Aleksandrja Jews on the Horyn River Bank

July 31 [1941] … Today several trucks with Germans arrived [in Aleksandria]. They scattered over the streets of the town and every Jewish male who passed the street was ordered to get onto the truck. It was easy to differentiate between a Jew and a non-Jew since the yellow patch decree had been fully implemented. When [Germans] hadn't succeed to fill the trucks with the passers-by on the streets, they drove to the organized workplaces where Jews worked. The came [also] to a peat quarry and they collected all the Jewish workers at the railroad station, where Jews worked in loading and unloading [of peat] – they all were loaded onto trucks. Among others who were collected to those death trucks were Israel Sudovitser, my best friend, who worked with me at the peat [quarry] … Drechtel and Faivel, his son; Shavtai Drechtel, Volf Brazov, Benjamin Veisman and many others. They were taken far away from the town, were ordered to get off the trucks and were shot. …

… And one Friday [i.e. July 31, 1941], in the morning, lot of Ukrainian [auxiliary] policemen and German soldiers came and collected people from [their] workplaces [by loading them] onto the trucks and brought them to the Horyn River Bank and shot them there. There were 85 [Jewish] victims, among them my grandfather Yosef and my uncle Faibish, my aunt Pesia and Batia, the daughter of Sarah Golda and her husband. …