“Sometime later in the village, a handwritten announcement began to circulate. It said: ‘Citizens, if you discover the body of a German soldier, you must inform the Kommandantur. If you find the body of a Russian soldier, you must bury it. However, if you find the body of a Jew, do not touch it!’ Then two or three weeks later, the bodies of the Jews started coming to the surface of the water. That’s how we knew they shot them in the river. When the other boys and I came to swim, we saw the bloated bodies floating. We saw our neighbors, Katia and Aunt Dounya. We pushed the bodies as far away as
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