Murder Story of Berezovka Jews at the Animal Burial Ground in the Berezovka Area

In November 1941, on the street corner in the village of Berezovka where I lived, innocent Jewish residents – the Tsablinsky family [and] Galka Musevna Orshik – were interrogated. This was followed by the arrival of three policemen – Petr Lutsenko from the village of Slobodki, Kaziimir (a gendarme), and the local policeman Ivan Sergeyevich Yarmy, who was accompanied by the village headman, Fedor Vasilyevich Zgonnik, [who] stopped me and said that they were going to take the Tsablinsky family and shoot them.... I would later learn from my wife and from other women that, as the Tsablinsky family were being taken to the pit at the cattle graveyard to be executed, they cried and bade farewell to the people they met. One member of the Tsablinsky family was the 76-year-old Hanna, who was paralyzed and bedridden. She, too, was taken out of the house, thrown onto a sled, and shot dead near the pit. Orshik's 59-year-old sister, who was likewise infirm and unable to walk, was shot together with her, and both were then thrown into the pit.