Murder story of Tuczyn Jews in the Tuczyn Park

…Following the liberation of the area of [Tuczyn] from the German-Fascist occupiers by Red Army troops, the [ChGK] Committee carried out an investigation and exhumation of the [mass] graves of the shot, burned, and tortured civilians in the Tuczyn area. It has established [the following]: …[Mass] grave # 6. Located in the park of the town of Tuczyn, where 318 shooting victims were buried….

…Now, I can also tell you that, for 2.5 years – from the minute the Germans entered Tuczyn until their departure from the Tuczyn area… – all [sic for some] innocent civilians of every nationality would be shot dead in the Tuczyn park on a daily basis. Some 1,000 [sic] people were tortured and shot dead [at this site]….

…The [subsequent shootings after the partial liquidation of the ghetto] were [carried out] on a daily basis… in the [town] park….

…When the Germans had occupied our Tuczyn area…, from the first days they began to arrest Soviet activists and shoot them in the [town] park…. Over the following days, the shootings would be carried out on an almost daily basis, and all the victims of these shootings were buried in the park….

…Besides, many Jewish and Ukrainian residents [of Tuczyn] were killed and tortured to death in the park of the town of Tuczyn, and were buried there, [but] I can't tell you how many [murdered] people there were….

…And on one occasion, when I came to Tuczyn from the city of Równe, I saw that Tuczyn was burning [i.e., the ghetto was burning during its liquidation], and I saw the German schutzmänner [i.e., the Ukrainian auxiliary policemen] catch the Jewish civilians, who were then taken to Tuczyn, to the [town] park. This happened during the night; I heard screams and the sounds of gunfire all through the night, until morning…. …And the next morning [after the partial liquidation of the ghetto], an order was issued by the German commandant [Richter, the Landwirte, the senior German official of the Tuczyn area], instructing those [Jews] who had fled to return to Tuczyn [and stating that] they wouldn't be killed – [to the contrary], they would be given work [and] bread. However, a few days later, when several hundred people had returned, [the Germans] carried out another pogrom, and this time some 200 [Jews] were killed…, while another group [of them were killed and buried] in the park. For the rest of the time [i.e., during the period after these murder operations], a methodical shooting action was carried out in the park, targeting those who had been caught [hiding]….