Murder Story of Kakhovka Jews in an Anti-tank Trench near Kakhovka

... On Monday an ominous, black day for the Jewish inhabitants began. Kakhovka was not a large city, [it was] a town of workers, everybody worked and lived in peace. The fascist hangmen, those bloodthristy beasts, shot thousands of innocent people - young and old, women and men, small children and pregnant women. The shooting started on September 18, 1941. My mother, I, and a friend of mine were there, next to the pit into which the dead and wounded Jewish civilians were falling. It is difficult to describe the cries of children and women who were wounded. After some time Soviet pilots flew over us and started to bomb not far from the shooting site. Three of us fell into the pit alive. It was night. Fortunately for us pouring rain started with lightning and thunder. The bloodthirsty beasts took off and were not seen again. Our condition was terrible. There were the screams of the wounded and there was the blood that had just been shed. Our thoughts were confused: [We wondered] what we should do.