Information from various places in Eastern Poland and Soviet Ukraine reaching Polish circles here today reveals a horrible picture of Jewish massacres carried out by Nazi troops behind the front lines.
Thousands of Jews who failed to retreat with the Soviet armies into Russia are simply being moved down by machine guns, the report states. The German soldiers are under orders “to get the Jews out of the way” since it would take time and trouble to transport them to ghettos.
Detailed data collected by reliable sources discloses that within one week alone 6,743 Jewish men, women and children were executed by the Nazi troops. This was during the third week of August. A two-day pogrom during which 4,200 Jews were executed by machine guns was carried out by the German military in Kamenetz-Podolsk on Aug. 27 and 28. A day before the Black Guard Elite battalions executed 546 Jews in Berlditchv. During the last week of August, 367 Jews were executed in Shepetovka and many hundreds of Jews in other Nazi-occupied Ukrainian towns. Any group of Jews overtaken on roads were handed over to the troops entrusted with “mopping-up operations” and were summarily shot without any trial or interrogation.
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