It should be observed that in Proskurov- the Gaidamaks, who had taken an oath on Saturday to slay but not to steal, honestly fulfilled their sacred oath. Robberies on the part of the Gaidamaks were rare there. But from Saturday7 to Tuesday, when the Felshtin massacre took place, several days had elapsed,
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and in this time the sanctity of the oath, apparently, had evaporated from the consciousness of the Gaidamaks. In Felshtin robberies went hand in hand with murders.
It must also be noted that while in Proskurov the assaults on women were isolated, in Felshtin there were a great many. The majority of the murdered women had first been violated, and many women who were not killed also suffered violation. Twelve cases were registered in which the unfortunate women needed surgical attention as a result.
As they left after the giving of the signal by trumpet, the Gaidamaks poured kerosene and benzine over five of the best houses in town and set them on fire.
Thus these champions completed their work for the welfare of the Ukrainian fatherland, and thus ended this bloody bacchanalia in Proskurov and Felshtin.
(End of A. I. Hillerson's Report.)
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HAMLET OF PECHKI (CANTON OF RADOMYSL)
Testimony of Simon-Leib Rabinovich, age 42, fish-dealer.
On March 20, when navigation began, there came to Pechki 20 Strukists. They were appointed to guard the river; perhaps steamers might pass, and then, as the soldiers themselves put it, "there will be gold bracelets, watches, and fine boots." Ten of them were quartered about the hamlet. The rest of the day and the night passed quietly. On the next day, early in the morning, two armed Strukists came to my house and ordered me to go with them. When I asked where they were taking me, they answered, "To headquarters, to Struk's." I went with them. On the way the bandits took three other Jews and started us in the direction of Gornostaipol. When we came out of the house, the soldiers began to demand money. Having received a comparatively small sum, the soldiers let us go. We returned to the hamlet. There a Strukist met me and yelled at me: "You are a Jew! You Jews want a commune! You'll find it in the water or under the ground!" I began to reply to him. Peasants gathered around us. The soldier proved rather dull, he had no answer for my arguments, and the peasants looked ironically at him. The soldier let me go and went away. (As I afterwards found out, that bandit was a Jew named Orosky, from the hamlet of Gorodische; no one knows what his former occupation was.) On the same evening the bandits rounded up all the local Jews, old men and women, and, showing them a machine-gun, demanded a contribution of 4,000 rubles. We began to bargain with them and
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