When Aizik’s mother learned that Ivan, the son of the family where she had sent her own child for safety, was digging a ditch, she ran to the farm to question him. “Ivanko,3 they’ve forced you to dig a ditch? A ditch for us? What ditch have you dug?” Such an awful question. The scene described by Anna was surreal. This wasn’t the first time a witness had told me about Jews leaving the ghetto to ask, “Is the ditch for us?”
