Murder story of Czetwiertnia Jews in the Czetwiertnia Area

"… it was early in the morning on the Sabbath [Saturday] of October 10, 1942. My mother, may her memory be for a blessing, was the first to wake up … in order to prepare some food for the children. She always woke up early. When she wanted to go out [to the street], she saw that we had been surrounded by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen and also by Germans. Then she entered the house and it was clear that this was the end. Then the crying and screaming [of Fania's family members] began, everyone woke up … My father, may his memory be for a blessing, decided to hide me. In the room where we were living in the ghetto, we had a sofa on which we slept and the sofa had a compartment in which bedclothes and linen were stored so that the sofa was used for two purposes: as a closet and as a bed. My father raised [the sofa's] cover and told me to get in, covered me, and told me to lie there. I had a [younger] sister of ten and she also wanted to get inside the sofa, but my father explained to her that both of us couldn't get in and since I was older … than she was, perhaps I would have a better chance of surviving. [While lying inside the sofa], I heard the crying of the little girl, who eventually accepted this situation. After a quarter hour, Ukrainian auxiliary policemen entered the house and chased everyone out of the room while I remained inside this sofa. The Ukrainian policemen began to look [for anyone hiding in the room]. One of them raised the cover of the sofa and... of course he found me since I wasn't hidden very well. He saw me and was greatly surprised since he wasn't expecting to find anyone alive there, he told me to get out [of the sofa]. Four Ukrainian policemen were standing in the room. Among them was one who was older than the rest. He took them aside and said to them: "You know what, guys, let her go so someone else can find her. She doesn't look Jewish, let her go." They told me to give them gold or money and then they would let me live. I told them that I didn't have anything with me and if there were anything, it would be left here [in the room], and if it was here, they would find it and it would be theirs anyway. The oldest policemen took me by the arm, looked outside [the house] to see whether there were any Germans around, and then told me to head in the opposite direction… . "