Murder Story of Slavuta Jews at the Slavuta POW Camp

… in 1942 all the cellars of the military barracks ([which were being used as] punishment cells) were overcrowded with an unwanted group of prisoners of war; most of them were Jews, many [Jewish] doctors were among them…. On one of the first days of December 1942, from morning until evening, a long column of Jewish prisoners, who were walking and holding each other's hand, (those who couldn't walk were taken by hand cart) were [taken] from the cellars of the last barracks numbered 5, 6, and 7 (where the victims had been previously isolated), under a reinforced guard of SS men and [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen with Gestapo overseers who had German shepherds, to the last station of their life: [they were taken] to deep trenches that had been prepared in advance at the edge of the forest, in front of barracks numbers 1 and 2, south [of the POW camp].… One after another the groups of those doomed to death, about 20 persons [in each group] … were pushed toward the trench and, to the sound of the terrifying howling and barking of the dogs, the victims were placed at the edge of the trench and, on the order of an SS officer, a volley of machine-gun shots [fired by Ukrainian] policemen … was heard. Thus, group after group, those human targets were placed along the whole length of the trench… ready for the following machine-gun volley. This atrocity was carried out before the observing eyes … of thousands [of non-Jewish prisoners of war]….