Murder Story of Balin Jews in a Clay Pit near Balin

… Rumors reached us that every day the Jews in some town or other had been murdered. On September 5, 1942 it was our turn. We were all collected on the town square and they [the Germans] began to carry out a selection of those able to work, who were put to one side, and the old people, women with nursing babies, and children who were not yet capable of working to the other side. The first group, where I was (since I was 14 years old) together with my father, was taken on foot by the Germans and Ukrainian policemen to a camp in Kamenets-Podolsk. When we had started moving from the square, we heard shooting from submachine-guns. That was how the Germans murdered the rest of the people, who had already been taken to the former clay pit. There my mother, two sisters and my brother, my close relatives, and friends were shot to death….