ГУЛаг Палестины
Шрифт:
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:
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