others will come and will certainly kill you.'" Landa, who was alone in the dwelling, since he had previously sent his wife and only daughter to another place, with the aid of this same Gaidamak got up into the garret by a hanging ladder, which the Gaidamak handed up to him in the garret, where he hid it. From the garret Landa was able to view all the horrors which were taking place in Felshtin. He saw old men and children dragged out of the houses and murdered. After a long time he saw three women near his house, and thinking that one was his wife, jumped down to look at the body. He found that it was not his wife, but did not venture to return to his dwelling because the ladder remained in the garret. He then ran into the house of a Russian neighbor and begged for refuge, but was driven out Then he ran into the garret of a neighboring house and hid there in the straw. Two lads of the Porichie guard saw this, and pursued him; they went up into the garret, but did not find him. They tried to set the straw on fire, but did not succeed.
Another witness, Sviner, who had recently returned from the front, tells how he, with his mother and sisters, hid in their house, and several groups of Gaidamaks visited them. He bought them off with money. When the last group appeared, he had no money left. He went out on the street to them and began to beg them to spare him. He took refuge in cunning and turned to one Gaidamak and said that he had lain with him in the trenches during the war. The Gaidamak began to look him over, and then turned his glance towards his legs and said: "You have some fine shoes, give them to me." He gladly agreed, and went into the house with the Gaidamaks and took off his boots. The Gaidamak in turn took off his own boots and put on Sviner's. Then he took out of his pocket a fresh pair of stockings, gave them to Sviner, and helped him put on his old boots. Having received a pair of rubbers also, he turned to his companions and said: "We won't kill a man with whom I sat in the trenches." Towards evening Sviner and his family, not knowing that the massacre was over, decided not to stay in the house any longer, and, making their way through the corpses on the street, they all left the town and spent the whole night in the fields. They only returned on the next day, when they learned that the town was quiet. Sviner then went to the bouse of his brother, who had been president of the Jewish community. With difficulty, walking over bodies, he got to the house, and there found his brother, his wife, her parents, and also several other people who had hidden in the house, all murdered.
The witness Kreimer states that he was in Proskurov at the
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time of the pogrom there. Having saved his life, on Sunday, February 16, at 12 noon, he started on foot for Felshtin, where he regularly lives. But at the village of Malinichi he was arrested by a militiaman and taken to the militia headquarters. The commandant of militia said he must take him back to Proskurov, to the commandant's. When he said he would be shot there and begged him not to send him there, the commander of militia replied that he himself would undergo a serious risk if he did not do so. He showed him a telegram received from Kiverchuk, commandant of Proskurov, telling him to shoot on the spot, or send to him in Proskurov to be shot, all agitators and Jews.