An old woman with snow-white hair was holding a one-year-old child in her arms and singing to it and tickling it. The child was cooing with delight. The parents were looking on with tears in their eyes. The father was holding the hand of a boy about 10 years old and speaking to him softly; the boy was fighting his tears. The father pointed to the sky, stroked his head and seemed to explain something to him.
—From an eyewitness account of a “minor mass execution” of people, mostly Jews, in Ukraine by Hitler’s minions in 1941. The family members, along with hundreds of others, were made to lie on top of corpses in a pit and there they were shot to death. In just two days, more than 30,000 people were executed in the capital. (Source: Shirer’s The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich)
