ГУЛаг Палестины

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)

(13) Ukrainians thrown into cauldrons of boiling water.

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)

(14) Had their noses, ears, tongues and even genitals cut away.

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