Murder Story of Horyngrod Jews in Babin

…On the Sabbath [sic for Sunday], July 6, 1941, a car arrived in Kripa [i.e., Horyńgród], bringing five Ukrainians. Those were peasants from the surrounding villages. Among them were Kolya, the son of an [Orthodox] priest, and Theodor Semanyuk. They were dressed in civilian clothes, but also wore blue and yellow ribbons [marking them as Ukrainian policemen]. They told [the Jewish residents] that they had come to call for laborers to extricate a car that was stuck in mud near the [Horyn] River. This was a ruse. They rounded up twenty-five Jews, took them outside of town, ordered them to dig pits, and shot them afterward. The next day, they returned to the murder site, dragged the bodies away, threw them into the pits, and covered them. One of those Jews [i.e., Aharon Grushka] remained alive, and he crawled back home, badly wounded.…