“Yes, they started shooting very early in the morning. I remember that it was freezing, and from time to time we would go into the house to get warm, then go back out onto the roof again. Surrounding the village was an anti-tank ditch that the Jewish women had dug over two weeks at the beginning of the war. They shot the Jews in front of this ditch. I saw with my own eyes the way the Germans made them take off their clothes. The winter was harsh, and they were all red with cold.”
