Murder story of Andrushevka Jews in the Andrushevka Forest

And… in early June [1942], I do not remember the date, everyone was taken out of the barracks. There was that camp in the village of Gardyshovka.… Everyone was forced out of the barracks; there were 250 people there, and all of them were taken outside, with the children and the infirm being loaded onto carts. All [the inmates] were women and children, except for five male "specialists," who were absent at the moment. All of them, including the sick ones and the little children, were taken into the forest and shot. After the war, these policemen stated in court: "They [the Jews] begged us to spare the children, since the children were innocent." The pit was very large, and they [the Germans] put some of them into the pit; they [the victims] climbed down into the pit and lay down atop one another. Some of them were still alive. The mothers had to lay down their children first, and then lie down in turn. All of them were shot.