Murder Story of Kupel Jews at the Brick Factory near the Village of Fridrikhovka

…. This was the situation till September 1942. People felt that … there was some kind of…movement… around the town… Many carts, lots of such [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen, new ones, whom we didn't know. One could tell that something was going to happen. Thus, we said to each other that apparently our end was coming, that they [the Germans] were undoubtedly preparing something. And at night – there was a roundup of all [of the Jews] and shooting. … I was sitting in the evening… on the windowsill in order not to fall asleep, to see what was going on. … my mother's sister ran up and knocked on our window … - Ester, run away, they are shooting, killing, it's a pogrom! I took my little girl… She wasn't yet two years old… she was very afraid …but didn't cry… . I took her and ran [from our home], ran in the darkness, the night. … I ran with her to a vegetable garden where we stayed in the dark. I already heard there the sound of someone moving through the bushes… there were Germans shouting and Ukrainians hollering – a pogrom was going on. But I was discovered: a [Ukrainian] policeman found me and took me to a German. But I knew the Ukrainian language very well…I tried to prove [to the Ukrainian policemen]…. that I wasn't a Jew, that I wasn't a "kike." He [replied] – "let's go there where there is a German, he will solve this. I approached the German, I explained all this to him, he [the policeman] translated it for the German, the German kicked me with his boot … and then let me go. … they [the Jews] were taken on foot [to the murder site], many, the weak ones, were shot to death there [in the ghetto], on the spot, many others were taken to Volochisk, … and there behind the cement factory [brick factory] there is place, a ravine. They were shot to death in this ravine, [and] covered over …. …. My mother's sister, Khaika, she was also killed there. She had a daughter, Rinochka, who was 7 years old. She [Khaika] and her daughter and her husband Shmulik were killed. .. . Uncle Feter.. Uncle Shmulik, Mima Malka .., Mima Dvoira… my father's sister, who had five children, and all of them were killed. … And Uncle Israel and Aunt Sarah, his wife, all of them were killed, all of my relatives were killed, no one survived. …