So, in Novozlatopol, the German police would go early in the morning before the shootings to requisition a Ukrainian village musician. They dragged him from his farm and forced him to play his bouben, next to the police headquarters, beside the common graves that had just been dug. He was made to play in a futile attempt to mask the noise of the guns firing. He played loudly while the young Ukrainians requisitioned to guard the Jews hit tin cans to drown out the screams.
