According to reliable information, about 20,000 Ukrainians have disappeared
from Lvov, 80% of them belonging to the intelligentsia.
The prisons in Lvov were crammed with the bodies of murdered Ukrainians.
According to a moderate estimate, in Lvov alone 3-4,000 persons were either
killed or deported.
In Dobromil, 82 dead bodies were found, 4 of them Jews. The latter were
former Bolsheviki informers who had been killed because of their complicity in
this act. Near Dobromil an obsolete salt mine pit was discovered. It was
completely filled with dead bodies. In the immediate neighborhood, there is a
6X15m mass grave. The number of those murdered in the Dobromil area is
estimated to be approximately several hundred.
In Sambor on June 26, 1941, about 400 Ukrainians were shot by the
Bolsheviks. An additional 120 persons were murdered on June 27, 1941. The
remaining 80 prisoners succeeded in overpowering the Soviet guards, and fled.
...
As early as 1939, a larger number of Ukrainians was shot, and 1,500
Ukrainians as well as 500 Poles were deported to the east.
Russians and Jews committed these murders in very cruel ways. Bestial
mutilations were daily occurrences. Breasts of women and genitals of men were
cut off. Jews have also nailed children to the wall and then murdered them.
Killing was carried out by shots in the back of the neck. Hand grenades were
frequently used for these murders.
In Dobromil, women and men were killed with blows by a hammer used to stun
cattle before slaughter.
In many cases, the prisoners must have been tortured cruelly: bones were
broken, etc. In Sambor, the prisoners were gagged and thus prevented from
screaming during torture and murder. The Jews, some of whom also held official
positions, in addition to their economic supremacy, and who served in the
entire Bolshevik police, were always partners in these atrocities.
Finally, it was established that seven [German] pilots who had been
captured were murdered. Three of them were found in a Russian military
hospital where they had been murdered in bed by shots in the abdomen. ...
... Prior to their withdrawal, the Bolsheviks shot 2,800 out of 4,000
Ukrainians imprisoned in the Lutsk prison. According to the statement of 19
Ukrainians who survived the slaughter with more or less serious injuries, the
Jews again played a decisive part in the arrests and shooting. ...
The investigations at Zlochev proved that the Russians, prior to their
withdrawal, arrested and murdered indiscriminately a total of 700 Ukrainians,
but, nevertheless, included the entire [local] Ukrainian intelligentsia.
(Operational Situation Report USSR No. 24, July 16, 1941, in Yitzhak Arad,
Shmuel Krakowski, and Shmuel Spector, The Einsatzgruppen Reports: Selections
from the Dispatches of the Nazi Death Squads' Campaign Against the Jews July
1941-January 1943, Holocaust Library, New York, 1989, p. 29-33)
Location: Pleskau [Pskov] ...
The population is in general convinced that it is mostly the Jews who
should be held responsible for the atrocities that are committed everywhere.
...
As it was learned that the Russians before they left have either deported
the Ukrainian intelligentsia, or executed them, that is, murdered them, it is
assumed that in the last days before the retreat of the Russians, about 100
influential Ukrainians were murdered [in Pleskau]. So far the bodies have not
been found - a search has been initiated.
About 100-150 Ukrainians were murdered by the Russians in Kremenets. Some
of these Ukrainians are said to have been thrown into cauldrons of boiling
water. This has been deduced from the fact that the bodies were found without
skin when they were exhumed. ...
... Before leaving Dubno, the Russians, as they had done in Lvov,
committed extensive mass-murder.
... Before their flight [from Tarnopol], as in Lvov and Dubno, the
Russians went on a rampage there. Disinterments revealed 10 bodies of German
soldiers. Almost all of them had their hands tied behind their backs with
wire. The bodies revealed traces of extremely cruel mutilations such as gouged
eyes, severed tongues and limbs.
The number of Ukrainians who were murdered by the Russians, among them
women and children, is set finally at 600. Jews and Poles were spared by the
Russians. The Ukrainians estimate the total number of [Tarnopol] victims since
the occupation of the Ukraine by the Russians at about 2,000. The planned
deportation of the Ukrainians already started in 1939. There is hardly a
family in Tarnopol from which one or several members have not disappeared.
... The entire Ukrainian intelligentsia is destroyed. Since the beginning of
the war, 160 members of the Ukrainian intelligentsia were either murdered or
deported. Inhabitants of the town had observed a column of about 1,000
civilians driven out of town by police and army early in the morning of July 1,
1941.
As in Lvov, torture chambers were discovered in the cellars of the Court of
Justice. Apparently, hot and cold showers were also used here (as in Lemberg
