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
into cauldrons of boiling water. This has been deduced from the
fact that the bodies were found without skin when they were