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There was a lady in the village who spoke good German and English. I asked Sevllana if I could meet the lady so she could help me to answer all the questions I had written down. The lady agreed and when the gentleman came up to the house, she came too. I asked her to ask him could he please say his name and then everything he knew about the people before and during the war. I was, of course, tape-recording this all the time.
He told me how the Germans kept the Jews in the ghetto in the church for a while. Some of the old and young were murdered early on; some went to work for the Germans. And in 1942, they took the rest of the community outside of the village and shot them and left them in the fields. The people from the village, Polish and Russian, dug a big hole and put all the bodies in one big grave --of my relations and many more, 395 of them-- and buried them.
I explained that the reason I liked to record all of the stories was that I have one cousin still alive who managed to go to Russia at the beginning of the war. He could not return to the village and went to Palestine. He is the only relation I have left alive.
