Murder story of Brody Jews at the Jewish Hospital in Brody

…The liquidation [of the Brody Ghetto] took place on May 21, 1943. On that day, I was hiding with my daughter in a bunker in the area of Zisler’s mill. My wife, sick with typhus, was hospitalized in the ghetto infirmary. Wishing to save my wife, I tried to go to the hospital. Unfortunately, I could not get there, since the ghetto was swarming with Gestapo men and German policemen. From time to time, Jewish policemen would come to our bunker and tell us about the progress of the murder operation. It was they who told me that my wife, along with the other patients, had been murdered in the area of the hospital….

I recall the murder operation that took place on September 20, 1942. I was hiding during that operation (it lasted a whole day, and possibly even two days, during the Jewish "Yom Kippur" holiday). After the murder operation, I returned to the hospital where I was employed as a doctor. There had been some forty patients at the hospital before the murder operation. Upon returning to the hospital after the murder operation, I found only a single eight-year-old girl there (I do not remember her name). The girl found out that uniformed Germans had burst into the hospital, taken out the sick, and shot them dead in the courtyard. When I arrived at the hospital, the bodies had already been removed. I did, however, see many bloodstains….