On 2 December [1941] a few Gestapo officers came to Siemiakowice village, located 15 km away from Horodenka [...] They ordered 40 villagers from the commune to dig, under their supervision, 4 pits in the woods near Siemiakowice, next to the mansion once used as a place of games by tourists. This place is located alongside the river Dniestr [...] were loaded onto already prepared cars and transported to Siemiakowice. There, in the pavilion, people were forced to strip naked while being beaten to speed them up, and then, naked and still being beaten, they were rushed to the pits where a wooden board was placed. There, they were shot [...] During this action about 2,400 Jews were killed. Their bodies are buried in three graves in Siemiakowice |