Murder story of Podbrodzie Jews at the Podbrodzie Flour Mill

One morning, the Jews of Podbrodzie learned about an extremely tragic incident. Some of the Jews had been taken away from the town during the night, along with their wives and children. Their houses were locked. That evening, all the Jews in town knew that sixty Jews had been taken by the Lithuanian partisans.… The sixty Jewish men, women, and children were taken out of the town that same day, and all of them were shot in a forest near the town's water mill. The town rabbi's son, Velvl Abramovitz [sic!], was a survivor from that group. He recounted that, when the sixty Jews had been taken from their homes in the middle of the night, the partisans told them that they were being taken to work, and allowed them to bring along packages that could be carried by hand. Everyone was taken to the police station, and from there to the pit. When the Jews saw the pit, they realized their fate. Yitzkhok Zilber, his wife, and their lovely one-year-old daughter were among the sixty. Yitzkhok begged a partisan whom he knew to shoot him and his wife, but to let his beautiful little daughter live. The Lithuanian responded by hitting Yitzkhok on the head with the butt of his rifle. Yitzkhok fell. The men were outraged, and they threw themselves upon the Lithuanians. Velvl Abramovitz took advantage of the confusion and began to run. Other Jews did likewise. The partisans opened fire on the fleeing Jews. Velvl managed to get back to the town unscathed, while the rest were shot. ... On Monday, September 29, two days after the Jews had been taken to the compound, the Lithuanians found twenty-two Jewish men, women, and children hiding in the attic of the study house. The Lithuanians shot the twenty-two Jews on the hill near the water mill outside of town.