Murder Story of Tuczyn Jews in Pustomyty

…We didn't have anything to eat for two days. Together with my older brother Yosef, I went to the village of Pustomyty to ask for food. We entered the house of a Baptist [named] Sergei. He gave us two loaves of bread. He told us that he had been to Tuczyn and learned that the Germans were preparing to go into the [Pustomyty] Forest to catch the Jews who had escaped [from the ghetto]. We hurried into the forest to warn the Jews of the impending danger. We didn't have to wait very long before the arrival of dozens of Ukrainian [auxiliary policemen] and Gestapo men with carts. They laid siege to the forest and opened fire from all directions. The Jews didn't know where to run. In the end, some 1,000 [sic] people of all ages were captured. The Germans ordered them to undress and took them naked… to the village of Pustomyty…. The Germans ordered the Ukrainian [policemen] to dig pits. I, my brother Yosef, and my cousin ran away. We found a deep pit and hid there until late at night. We heard shots and terrible screams. At night, we emerged from the pit and went toward the forest. We approached the pits that the Ukrainians had dug. They were full of Jewish bodies, and there was a lot of blood. The Ukrainians had taken away the clothes of the murdered [Jews]….