Murder story of Lyantskorun Jews in the Lyantskorun Ghetto

… Several weeks after the German occupation began a ghetto was set up in the town, guarded by Ukrainian auxiliary policemen. We were living in this ghetto until May 1942… . On May 7, 1942, at dawn, German [administration officials] in brown uniforms arrived [in the town] and shot to death a group of ghetto inmates on the spot. On this fateful and tragic morning, hearing shooting on the streets, my mother pushed me out the house toward the nearby [Russian] Orthodox cemetery, ordering me to hide in the house of some peasants who were known to be good people. Until dark I hid in the cemetery and when the shooting in the ghetto subsided, at night I made my way through the fields to these peasants who lived in the nearby village of Kugayevtsy… .