Murder Story of Kamenny Brod Jews in Dibrovka

...We are now next to what was going to connect Odessa and Leningrad, but it was not finished. Before the war, they began to build it; it was supposed to be a railway line. Not far from here is the village of Dibrovka, of the Kamennyy Brod rural council [area]. We are close to this road where, on November 3, 1943, the policemen of Dovbysh County, together with the Fascists, carried out the last "zachistka" [purge] of the Jewish population; "zachistka" is how they used to refer to this. According to witnesses' testimonies, fifty people were caught and brought here, next to the road. After a drunken orgy in Dibrovka, the policemen decided to shoot them on the spot. They dug a pit here and shot them not far from the road. Unfortunately, the names [of the victims] are not known, but all of them were Jews. This was really the last "zachistka" committed by the Dovbysh police, headed by Lyayport. On their [the policemen's] way back to Dovbysh, partisans attacked them in some village and killed all the policemen. Q. How do you know that all the murder victims were Jews? A. All of them were people who had been hiding from the Germans. They were young people -- boys and girls -- and elderly Jews who claimed to be rural residents from the village of Tartal. From the village of Finil, they were taken to Dibrovka. In Kamennyy Brod, there were many Righteous Among the Nations, who told me about it [the mass murder]....