The Testimony of Timofievitch:
…in the Fall of 1942, I can't remember the exact date, I was ordered to report with my policemen to the village of Volchicha [Volchin] to partake in the execution of Jews. The evening before, I got drunk and did not go the next day to Volchicha. However, my deputy – a Pole by the name of Kesar, told me that they slaughtered nearly 300 Jews - women, old people and children - in Volchicha, near the Church, and that before executing them they undressed them and later sold their clothes to the farmers. In the village of Volchicha, in front of 3 Gestapo men and one German of the German Republic on the Volga [USSR], they slaughtered people, but I don't remember now the names of those German slaughterers.
Dov Bar: The Volchin slaughter took place the day after
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), Tuesday the 22nd of September 1942. It took place in a sand pit, Vochin north, near the Polish Catholic Church and near the former estates of the Polish landowners of Volchin. The participating murderers were: members of the local ghetto police headed by a local Pole, at least 20 policemen from Motikala, 3 Nazis and a German from the
German Republic on the Volga.
After the mass-murder, residents of the place who were pre-summoned as labourers, covered the common grave with earth.
According to the plaque on the memorial –placed by the Red Army after the re-conquest– 395 Jews of Volchin were murdered there, along with a small number of the elders of Chernevchich
who were brought by the Nazis to the Volchin ghetto and were lodged in a barn.
