Murder story of Slutsk Jews in the Gorovakha Ravine

One Sunday, apparently in November [sic], 1941 a Lithuanian unit arrived in Slutsk in order to carry out an operation against the Jews. On the same day some of them [Lithuanians] surrounded the town; the rest entered houses looking for Jews. Any Jew found in the houses or on the street was shot on the spot. Afterwards Jewish property was looted. Within a couple of hours approximately 3,000 Jews were murdered on that day. The rest succeeded in hiding. After the operation the Lithuanian unit left.

... In September [1941] a Lithuanian murder squad arrived [in Slutsk] and surrounded the entire town. At 10 a.m. the roundup of Jews began. They were caught at work and in their homes, loaded onto trucks and taken to a birch grove near Selishche village where pits had been dug. There 8,000 people were shot. At that time I was running through the city and the Germans caught me. They took me to a group that was waiting for a truck. The people were guarded by only one German. The arrival of the truck was delayed so I waited until the German turned away and I ran. I hid in a barn and then under the house where... the police chief lived. I stayed there until morning. In the morning I crawled out of my hiding place and went to look for my father and sister. The road through the field was literally covered with bodies, they did not have time to bury them. I recognized many relatives and acquaintances among them: it was a horrible sight. My father, with his four daughters, their husbands, and grandchildren had hid in the barn, but that did not save them... I became an orphan....