Murder Story of Ruzhin Jews in the Garden of the Kommuna Collective Farm

On May 1, 1942 at 4 a.m. Gestapo soldiers and members of the police force rounded up one of the village [illegible] and forced about 300 [illegible] into a school. From there they were taken to a pit that had been prepared in advance. The young children were grabbed by their legs and arms and thrown into the pit while still alive. Their parents, who had been shot to death, were thrown on top of them and then all of them were covered with earth. All this took only an hour. … The women and children who had managed to escape to the forest were caught by the police and were kept in a basement without food for two days; during that time two of them committed suicide. At the end of 1942, 37 [illegible] people from the village were taken and driven to an unknown destination.