Murder story of Labun Jews in the Berezanskyi Forest

… Several weeks after the beginning of the war [members of an] S.S. unit arrived by truck in Labun. They ordered a roundup of men, only Jews, supposedly for repairing roads. My mother pushed me slightly at that moment, [saying]: "Look, they are taking the Jews…". The Jews were ordered to take shovels, pickaxes, axes with them… [in order to] "repair roads." There was a total of 4 trucks with S.S. men, four S.S. men were sitting in the corners of each truck; the Jews were loaded in rows, one after the other. Half an hour or an hour after the trucks had left [for the murder site], they returned for the next group … . Several days afterwards it turned out that the Jews had been taken to an alder forest near [the village of] Bereznaya and shot to death there. We boys [at that time] were taking our cattle to graze near the forest and heard machine-gun clatter. We climbed the tall alders and saw that the trucks were taking Jews [to the murder site]. The Jews dug pits for themselves, [then] they were shot to death; some were kept alive in order to cover [with earth] those pits [with the bodies of those already murdered], and then they were also ordered to dig pits [for themselves] and then shot to death [in their turn].... In the end, we children became frightened and ran away as fast as we could…

… On August 14, 1941 my father was shot to death [by the Germans]. On the pretext of being sent to do road work [Jewish] men [were ordered to take with them] shovels and then loaded onto [several] covered trucks. In the evening we learned from someone who managed to escape [the shooting] about the death of my father. …