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)
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)
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