According to Father Patrick Desbois, on
this site:
One of his interviewees was Petrivna, a Ukrainian woman, in the
village of Ternivka. "The Jews", she said,
"were gathered in the centre of the village and taken to a large pit on the fringes of the community.
They were told to lie down, twenty at a time, and shot in the back of the head. It’s not easy to walk on bodies,"
Petrivna told the priest.
"Very calmly I asked her: ‘You had to walk
on the bodies of the people who were shot?’ She replied:"
‘Yes, I had to pack them down . . . after every volley of shots.
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We were three Ukrainian girls who, in our bare feet, had to pack them
down, the bodies of the Jews, and throw a fine layer of sand on top of
them so that other Jews could lay down.’
I [Christine Usdin] met Petrivna in Ternivka in June 2008. She is married to the
only Jew who survived and shated [sic stayed?] in the village, Khaim Shtein. Khaim's
daughter lives in Israel. I asked him, why he didn't go there. He
answered "I was born here and I am married with an Ukrainian woman".
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