Murder story of Yarun Jews in the Paseka Ravine

During the period of the German occupation of Povchin village, Yarun County, Zhitomir District, in the month of November 1941 the Yarun police arrived at Povchin village. There they arrested all the Jews who lived in the territory of the Povchin rural council. They [ the police] took the latter [the Jews] to the village of Yarun, where they were shot. The following people were arrested: 1. 1.Avrum Srulevich Bronshtein, born in 1880 2. Chaya Isakovna Bronstein, born in 1882 3. Basya Avrumovna Bronstein, born in in 1905 4. Dudik Avrumovich Bronstein , born in 1911 5. Motya Chanbirovich Vanshteinboym, born in 1860 6. Gedel Motyevich Vanshteinboym, born in 1920 7. Srul Berkovich Chodurskiy, born in 1880 8. Surka Avrumovna Chodurskiy, born in 1892 9. Berkl Srulevich ____//_______, born in 1920 10. Dudik_________//__________, born in 1928 11. Lyusik ________//__________, born in 1932 12. Roza Avrumovna ____//______, born in 1875

During the period of the German occupation of Yarun' village, Yarun' County, Zhitomir District, on May 5, 1942, a mass shooting of the innocent civilians of Jewish and Ukrainian origin was carried out. It took place at noon at the apiary [located] in the area of Yurkovshchina village. The following people were shot: Tovbin, Kinerman, David Sukhner, Dveres, Shlema Kopelman, Iosif Sukhner, Gayevoy, Klim Grishuk, Burbolyuk and others. In the course of two hours 580 people were shot. The shooting was carried out with machine-guns and sub-machineguns, and by burying people alive. [The victims] were taken in [3] groups -- of men, of women [with children], and of girls and [young] women from 12 to 30 years old.

On November 25, 1941, at 12 noon policemen from Yarun arrived at the apartment where our neighbor Azrel Avramovich Bogomolny, a resident of Zakrenichye village, was living. The policemen arrested Azrel Avramovich Bogomolny and his family: 1)Nekha Shmilyina Bogomolny, 2)Zelik Azrielivich, 3)Golda Azrielevna Bogomolny, 4)Sonya Azrielevna Bogomolny, 5)Chaim Azrielevich Bogomolny, and 6) Shukhina Azrielevna Bogomolny, and took them to the village of Yarun. They were shot with sub-machineguns on May 6 [sic], 1942, one kilometer from the village of Yarun.