Yad Vashem

The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority

Collection of Testimonies Division

Testimony #03/7260

Cassette #033C/2944

Country: Ukraine Language: Russian

Witness: Boris Lisiansky

Address: Rehov Dvir 2/6; Neve Merhav, Pardes-Hanna

Date & Place of Birth: 1918, Belilovka

Testimony Content:

· Invasion of Belilovka by the German Army at the beginning of July 1941

· Anti-Jewish regulations

· Cooperation by the Ukrainian police with the Germans

· The Massacre of the Jews of Belilovka in the middle of July 1941

· Concentration of the Jews of Belilovka & area in the Vcherayshe ghetto

· Escape attempts by Jews from the ghetto to the forest

· Torments & acts of humiliation of the Jews

· Siege of the Jews of the Vcherayshe ghetto & their execution in mass graves near the town of Ruzhin

· The Ruzhin ghetto

· Murder of the ghetto’s Jews at the Rostovitsa train station

· Extermination of the Belilovka ghetto in May 1943

· Induction of the witness in the collection of bodies of those murdered in the killing pits, together with a friend & wanderers in the area

· Assistance to the witness by the commander of the local gendarmerie – local “folksdeutsch”

· In the place of hiding, together with his sister, in the attic of the Ukrainian, Ivan Samotoga, formerly a man of Petlyura’s gangs, who participated in the murder of the Jews of Ukraine

· The attainment of identification cards for him & his sister in the name of local Ukrainians

· Enlistment as a Ukrainian laborer in Germany as “Boris Petrovich Yankovoy”

· Escape from the Pszemysl train station

· Return to Ukraine

· In the Zhmerinka ghetto

· Liberation by the Red Army at the end of 1943

· Work as the Director of the Postal Department in Brusilov

· Relations after the War with his rescuer, Ivan Samotoga

· Immigration to Israel in 1990

Recording Time: 3 hours; Number of pages: 31

Place: Pardes Hanna; Date April 1994; Name of Interviewer: Y. Alfrovitz

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