Murder Story of Slavuta Jews in a Cellar in the Ghetto

… in March 1942 the Fascists and their accomplices [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen took the Jewish population [from the Annopol ghetto] to the ghetto of Slavuta…. On March 2 we were taken from Annopol on foot; people could only take with them what they could carry. Women carried children in their arms and things that they could take with them; old people were taken on carts. The people were driven like livestock, [guarded] from both sides by Fascists with dogs and [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen. In the evening we arrived in Slavuta, weak and hungry. The ghetto was surrounded by 3-meter high barbed wire. The guards, who were stationed at the gates [of the ghetto] attacked the old and handicapped people, descending on them like hawks, taking them [to be shot] to the cellar [of a former homestead that was located near the entrance to the ghetto]…. There [on the street near the cellar] my grandma Malka Kogan [from the village of Dolzhki), Rivka Litvak from [the village of] Khonyakov…, Rigil [Gitel], a handicapped woman from Annopol, and many others [old people and handicapped] were shot to death. For 2-3 days their blood was flowing, coloring the snow [red]; we were taken [and made] to cover this blood.…