Murder Story of Kobryn Jews at the Bronna Gora Railway Station

In Ghetto B, they removed all the people from their homes and took them to some village, where they stayed all night. In the morning, they searched every house in the ghetto, and anyone they found would be taken to Ghetto B. And then they took all the people from both places and forced them to march on foot to the railway station. From there, 3,000 people were taken to Bronna Góra, 40 kilometers from Kobryn, where pits had already been dug. Bronnaya Gora is near Bereza [Bereza Kartuska], a very well-known village, about as large as Kobryn in size. It was a forested area, and a railway line had been built there. When the train reached its destination, everyone was told to undress. After that, three thousand of our people were murdered. In the next operation, 50 thousand Jews from other places in the area, from Brisk [Brześć nad Bugiem] and all the other small villages, were taken. Now, there is a memorial there, with an inscription stating that 50,000 Jews were murdered in this area. Afterward, all their clothes were brought back to our town of Kobryn, possibly on the same train, and stored in the large synagogue. The surviving women from Ghetto A were taken there and ordered to check if there was any money remaining in the pockets. Then, someone found a note written by one Jew. He wrote about the pits, how everyone was told to get undressed, and how Shalkon, a teacher of Hebrew, spoke to the Germans, telling them that their children would be treated the same way they [the Germans] were treating the Jews now. It was Shreibman who wrote it; that was his name.