However, the fillers were not entirely like the other conscripts. Each of them was confronted not only with the bodies of murdered Jews but also with Jews who had survived the shooting and were in agony, or who had simply been thrown alive into the grave and were trying, most often in vain, to extract themselves from the mass of bodies, blood, and sand. This is what immediately affected me upon meeting them. Their shovels full of dirt were, in fact, murderous.
