Murder story of Korytnica Jews in the Korytnica Area

… The tragic day took place in the town. It was on [the Jewish holiday of] Shavuot, May 9, 1942. That evening I happened to be with my brother in a village [outside Korytnica]… we were very tired. Since the non-Jew [for whom they worked] wanted us to finish our work, we worked until late at night and decided not to return home that night. On the [next] morning of May 9, two Ukrainians [auxiliary policemen]… and one German attacked the Jews. They killed them. My sister Hana was among those killed. Afterward, some non-Jews told us that when he was told to take his old father and bring him to the pit,a Jew named Shloimo Laifer, an ordinary Jew, goodhearted, and God-fearing, spat on the German. He was the only one who resisted in such a way. The rest of the Jews were children, women, and several elderly people. That is how, according to my estimate, about 60-70 were slaughtered. All the Jews of the town were wiped out. The non-Jews [also] told us that the Poles who remained [in the town], including those who belonged to the intelligentsia … were the first ones to pounce on the remaining Jewish property, and fought with each other over who would take what.…