Dov Bar: Khilke Polkes, the Red Army man, born in Volchin, helped erect the headstone on the mass grave in Volchin. He saw to it that they added to the words on the plaque fixed to the stone, two Hebrew letters:

Here is buried...

And between them – a Magen David.

The Soviets, as usual, inscribed on the plaque that here are buried 395 citizens with nomention of their nationality. A short while later, the representatives of the communist authorities in the neighborhood arrived in Volchin, dug open the mass grave and then covered it anew. They wrote a document titled Protocol no. 8 in which they noted that they found 497 bodies in the mass grave.

After the liberation, a Jewish officer of the Red Army arrived in Volchin. All corroborators with the Nazis were detained and investigated. Many of them were transferred to Brest for further investigation. Some of them returned crippled, according to the stories of the elders of Volchin. Some were sent to Siberia.

Timofievitch says:

Dov Bar: In none of my inquiries did I encounter information about the referenced mass-murder in Lishtchitsa.