Murder Story of Stanisławów Jews at the Stanisławów Christian Cemetery

Ivano-Frankivsk August 29, 1966 From the testimony of Abram Gorn (born 1908): …One day in September 1941 – I can no longer recall the exact date – I was arrested in the street in the city of Stanisławów by a German officer, who took me to a group of other arrestees. A large number of German soldiers and officers assembled around us, as more and more arrested Jewish men kept being brought in. Once fifty persons had been rounded up in this manner, two trucks arrived. We were loaded onto the vehicles, which were covered with tarpaulin, and armed policemen climbed on top of them. We were then driven to the Ukrainian cemetery on Sovietskaya Street. After getting off the trucks at the western end of the cemetery, we were forced to dig large pits. There were about a dozen coffin-like boxes lying nearby, each of them containing three or four bloody bodies of shooting victims. Most of the bodies were dressed in Soviet military uniforms, and all of them had their hands tied with barbed wire behind their backs. As we were digging the pits, many Jews became exhausted, and were shot on the spot….