Murder Story of Shklov Jews in Semyonovka

... After a week our family was evicted from our home and ordered to move to the ghetto, for which a place on the banks of the Dniepr near the village of Ryzhkovichi was allocated. ... Before the transfer of all the Jews into the ghetto, males age 15-65 were selected, ostensibly to carrry out some work. I found myself in this group even though I was not yet 14. I remember the killers well. They wore black uniforms, the officers had red armbands in the center of which was a white circle with a black swastika; on their chests they had the figure of an eagle with outstretched wings. In the commotion I succeeded in escaping by swimming across to the left bank of the Dniepr. All those taken "for work" were shot on the kolkhoz lawn in Semyonovka...