Murder story of Horochow Jews in the Czujew Area

When the "murder operation" day came, the Germans brought [to the town] trucks and wagons. The Jews turned to their representative Herschel Zimmerman [the head of the Judenrat] and asked him what this meant. On Saturday morning Zimmerman came to the workshop and announced that all was lost and that each person had to look out for himself. I met Yonah Zotler and we decided to escape [to the forest]. … Those [survivors] who came to the forest after us told us that the [German] commandant of the town, with whom Herschel Zimmerman was in contact, came that morning to Zimmerman's home and said to him:" I will do you a favor and not let that those pigs [i.e. Ukrainian auxiliary policemen] kill you; I will kill you myself" – and he shot him. From that time all the Jewish residents of the town were loaded onto trucks and taken toward the village of Czujew, where pits had been prepared. The Jews were shot to death and buried there.