Murder story of Krasnostav Jews in the Guta Forest

At the end of the summer … the annihilation of the Jews from the town of Krasnostav began. … Early in the morning [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen drove the Jews of different ages (women with children, youths, and old people) out of their homes to the clubhouse building. The road leading to the clubhouse was blocked off [so that locals could not see what was happening]. The Germans [members of the Gendarmerie] arrived at the site and, together with Ukrainian policemen, drove the people [from the clubhouse] and took them to the forest [near Guta village]. A long, deep pit, (which residents of the [Guta] village had been force to dig) was ready for them in the forest. The execution began and people fell into the pit dead or [even still] alive. The appeals of the victims and their attempts to ransom themselves were ignored. For [the next] three days the earth [over the mass grave] was heaving and moaning [of the victims] could be heard. …

… In August 1941 about 10 Germans [apparently members of the Gendarmerie] and [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen arrived [in the town] by truck from the [local] commandant's office [located in the town] of Berezdov. Early in the morning they drove the Jewish residents onto the street; there, in the town [on Market Square], where there was a clubhouse, they collected all the people. Sometime in the afternoon they were all taken to the forest near Guta village. A pit had been already dug [at the site]…. The Germans forced the people in groups into the pit, where they were shot to death before the eyes of the other [Jews].… Among those who were shot to death I knew Brudman, Shoykhet and his family, Yosi Shteger and his brother David Shteger, and Berk Goldman. Among them were also Grigorii and Sofa, born in 1925, Gena Rozenshtein, who was born in 1925, the Shapovnikov couple with their two children – Sara and Mikhel, and Piotr Fusik. His sister, Stasya Fusik, who was born in 1926, survived [the shooting] by a miracle. When they were shot, she fell under her brother, Petr; afterwards she [got out of the pit and] crawled to the forest.… I also knew Kleiman, who worked as a bookkeeper at the brick factory in [the nearby town of] Manyatin. He wasn't willing to proceed to the clubhouse building, so he was shot to death right on the road.…