Dov Bar: the governor of parish Motikala, Maliota, was a Ukrainian, a real monster. He ruled the police and did not loathe other “small tasks”. Every so often he came to inspect the ghetto of Volchin, which was also under his supervision. There he showed them the harm he could inflict. He personally hit the inhabitants of the ghetto with his lead-tipped whip. Mendle Rafkovska of Volchin writes about it in the Yizkor booklet of the descendents of Volchin and Wysokie Litevsk (NY 1948).

A well-known Nazi practice was to kill laborers when they finished their assigned task. That was done in this case, too. I am not certain that Timofievitch told the whole truth. I strongly suspect that the Motikala policemen had a hand in the murder of the Jewish forced-labor workers and later covered their grave. In my opinion, at least some of the laborers killed were young Jewish men from Volchin. I do not know if any mark exists over their grave, which is located at the northern entrance to Chernevchich on the way to Kamenetz. When we were in Brest in June 1997 we didn't know yet of the document of Timofievitch's testimony and therefore we didn't know of the existence of this mass grave.