Murder story of Tuczyn Jews in the Tuczyn Ghetto

…[After the partial liquidation of the ghetto, Itshak Chomut emerged from his hiding place and went to the former ghetto area, where he met several survivors].… I learned from them that, during the burning of the ghetto, more than 100 [sic] people had been killed or suffocated to death [inside the ghetto]….

…Before Yom Kippur, it became known that a fence was being erected around the poor neighborhood in Tuczyn, and that a ghetto would be set up there. On the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jews were ordered to move into this ghetto.… During the burning [of the ghetto], I wasn't there, but it later became known that many Jews had died – not only from the bullets [of the killers], but also from suffocation, when the bodies [of the Jews] fell one on top of the other [apparently, in the stampede that resulted when the Jews broke through the ghetto fence]. On the next day, Ukrainians were brought in to remove the [bodies of the] murdered [Jews] and take them to the burial pit. On the way [to the mass grave, the Ukrainians] rifled through the pockets and the bodies [of the dead Jews]. [Thus,] the Germans paid the Ukrainians with Jewish property….