ГУЛаг Палестины

(Hans Frank, In the Face of the Gallows, p. 406)

(7) The city stank.

In Lvov, several thousand prisoners had been held in three jails.

When the Germans arrived on 29 June, the city stank, and the

prisons were surrounded by terrified relatives. Unimaginable

atrocities had occurred inside. The prisons looked like

abattoirs. It had taken the NKVD a week to complete their gruesome

task before they fled. (Gwyneth Hughes and Simon Welfare, Red

Empire: The Forbidden History of the USSR, 1990, p. 133)

(8) Many of them were found mutilated.

We learned that, before the Russian troops had left, a very great

number of Lemberg [Lviv] citizens, Ukrainians and Polish

inhabitants of other towns and villages had been killed in this

prison and in other prisons. Furthermore, there were many corpses

of German men and officers, among them many Air Corps officers, and

many of them were found mutilated. There was a great bitterness

and excitement among the Lemberg population against the Jewish

sector of the population. (Erwin Schulz, from May until 26

September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a subunit of

Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The Holocaust:

Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New York, 1982,

Volume 18, p. 18)

(9) The killed people in Lemberg [Lviv] amounted to about 5,000.

On the next day, Dr. RASCH informed us to the effect that the

killed people in Lemberg [Lviv] amounted to about 5,000. It has

been determined without any doubt that the arrests and killings had

taken place under the leadership of Jewish functionaries and with

the participation of the Jewish inhabitants of Lemberg. That was

the reason why there was such an excitement against the Jewish

population on the part of the Lemberg citizens. (Erwin Schulz,

from May until 26 September, 1941 Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, a

subunit of Einsatzgruppe C, in John Mendelsohn, editor, The

Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes, Garland, New

York, 1982, Volume 18, p. 18)

(10) Hardly 20% of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained.

Chief of Einsatzgruppe B reports that Ukrainian insurrection

movements were bloodily suppressed by the NKVD on June 25, 1941 in

Lvov. About 3,000 were shot by NKVD. Prison burning. Hardly 20%

of Ukrainian intelligentsia has remained. (Operational Situation

Report USSR No. 10, July 2, 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. 2)

(11) The corpses are dreadfully mutilated.

Location: Lvov

According to reliable information, the Russians, before

withdrawing, shot 30,000 inhabitants. The corpses piled up and

burned at the GPU prisons are dreadfully mutilated. The population

is greatly excited: 1,000 Jews have already been forcefully

gathered together. (Operational Situation Report USSR No. 11, July

3, 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. 4)

(12) The prisons in Lvov were crammed with the bodies of murdered

Ukrainians.

Location: Zviahel (Novograd-Volynski)

[...]

Before leaving, the Bolsheviks, together with the Jews,

murdered several Ukrainians; as an excuse, they used the attempted

Ukrainian uprising of June 25, 1941, which tried to free their

prisoners.

According to reliable information, about 20,000 Ukrainians have

disappeared from Lvov, 80% of them belonging to the intelligentsia.

The prisons in Lvov were crammed with the bodies of murdered

Ukrainians. According to a moderate estimate, in Lvov alone

3-4,000 persons were either killed or deported.

In Dobromil, 82 dead bodies were found, 4 of them Jews. The

latter were former Bolsheviki informers who had been killed because

of their complicity in this act. Near Dobromil an obsolete salt

mine pit was discovered. It was completely filled with dead

bodies. In the immediate neighborhood, there is a 6X15m mass

grave. The number of those murdered in the Dobromil area is

estimated to be approximately several hundred.

In Sambor on June 26, 1941, about 400 Ukrainians were shot by

the Bolsheviks. An additional 120 persons were murdered on June

27, 1941. The remaining 80 prisoners succeeded in overpowering the

Soviet guards, and fled. [...]

As early as 1939, a larger number of Ukrainians was shot, and

1,500 Ukrainians as well as 500 Poles were deported to the east.

Russians and Jews committed these murders in very cruel ways.

Bestial 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: