ГУЛаг Палестины

mutilations were daily occurrences. Breasts of women and genitals of men were

cut off. Jews have also nailed children to the wall and then murdered them.

Killing was carried out by shots in the back of the neck. Hand grenades were

frequently used for these murders.

In Dobromil, women and men were killed with blows by a hammer used to stun

cattle before slaughter.

In many cases, the prisoners must have been tortured cruelly: bones were

broken, etc. In Sambor, the prisoners were gagged and thus prevented from

screaming during torture and murder. The Jews, some of whom also held official

positions, in addition to their economic supremacy, and who served in the

entire Bolshevik police, were always partners in these atrocities.

Finally, it was established that seven [German] pilots who had been

captured were murdered. Three of them were found in a Russian military

hospital where they had been murdered in bed by shots in the abdomen. ...

... Prior to their withdrawal, the Bolsheviks shot 2,800 out of 4,000

Ukrainians imprisoned in the Lutsk prison. According to the statement of 19

Ukrainians who survived the slaughter with more or less serious injuries, the

Jews again played a decisive part in the arrests and shooting. ...

The investigations at Zlochev proved that the Russians, prior to their

withdrawal, arrested and murdered indiscriminately a total of 700 Ukrainians,

but, nevertheless, included the entire [local] Ukrainian intelligentsia.

(Operational Situation Report USSR No. 24, July 16, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad,

Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections

from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July

1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 29-33)

Location: Pleskau [Pskov] ...

The population is in general convinced that it is mostly the Jews who

should be held responsible for the atrocities that are committed everywhere.

...

As it was learned that the Russians before they left have either deported

the Ukrainian intelligentsia, or executed them, that is, murdered them, it is

assumed that in the last days before the retreat of the Russians, about 100

influential Ukrainians were murdered [in Pleskau]. So far the bodies have not

been found - a search has been initiated.

About 100-150 Ukrainians were murdered by the Russians in Kremenets. Some

of these Ukrainians are said to have been thrown into cauldrons of boiling

water. This has been deduced from the fact that the bodies were found without

skin when they were exhumed. ...

... Before leaving Dubno, the Russians, as they had done in Lvov,

committed extensive mass-murder.

... Before their flight [from Tarnopol], as in Lvov and Dubno, the

Russians went on a rampage there. Disinterments revealed 10 bodies of German

soldiers. Almost all of them had their hands tied behind their backs with

wire. The bodies revealed traces of extremely cruel mutilations such as gouged

eyes, severed tongues and limbs.

The number of Ukrainians who were murdered by the Russians, among them

women and children, is set finally at 600. Jews and Poles were spared by the

Russians. The Ukrainians estimate the total number of [Tarnopol] victims since

the occupation of the Ukraine by the Russians at about 2,000. The planned

deportation of the Ukrainians already started in 1939. There is hardly a

family in Tarnopol from which one or several members have not disappeared.

... The entire Ukrainian intelligentsia is destroyed. Since the beginning of

the war, 160 members of the Ukrainian intelligentsia were either murdered or

deported. Inhabitants of the town had observed a column of about 1,000

civilians driven out of town by police and army early in the morning of July 1,

1941.

As in Lvov, torture chambers were discovered in the cellars of the Court of

Justice. Apparently, hot and cold showers were also used here (as in Lemberg

[Lviv]) for torture, as several bodies were found, totally naked, their skin

burst and torn in many places. A grate was found in another room, made of wire

and set above the ground about 1m in height, traces of ashes were found

underneath. A Ukrainian engineer, who was also to be murdered but saved his

life by smearing the blood of a dead victim over his face, reports that one

could also hear screams of pain from women and girls. (Operational Situation

Report USSR No. 28, July 20, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad, Shmuel Krakowski, and

Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections from the Dispatches of

the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July 1941-January 1943,

Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p.38-40)

F. Fedorenko

MY TESTIMONY

When the bolsheviks retreated before the German onslaught in the Second

World War they took care in advance not to leave any prisoners behind when the

Germans arrived.

The prisoners were driven, en masse, under heavy NKVD guard deep into

Russia or Siberia, day and night. Many of them were so tired that they could

go no further. These were shot without compunction where they fell. Terrible

things happened then. Sometimes, wives recognized their husbands among the

evacuees, as the prisoners were being driven through the villages. There was

great despair when they saw their loved ones taken under the muzzles of

automatic guns, to far, unknown places.

The villagers took care of those who did not die at once from the NKVD

bullets, but this was a very dangerous thing to do before all the bolsheviks