“They forced the Jews to line up along the steps that had been made on either side of the ditch. They fired with a machine gun, and all the Jews on one of the steps fell. Then they shot the Jews on the other step. This way, they all fell headfirst toward the middle. I can’t talk about it. It’s extremely hard. Can you imagine, for the child that I was! It was a nightmare. After having seen all this, I couldn’t sleep or eat or do anything at all…. There were some mothers who had babies in blankets in their arms. They were told to put them down around the ditch; they did it. That’s when Dioma,
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