16. A naked Red soldier, in broad daylight, on Nizhe-Nikolaievskaya Street, after bathing in a bath-house, attacked a 55year-old woman who was passing and violated her.
17. The clear fact of anti-Semitism on the part of the 8th Soviet regiment is proved by the complete demobilization of the detachment of Urbailis and Piontkovsky, into which many local Jewish workmen had entered. Almost the whole detachment, together with its commanders, was compelled to flee to Kiev for safety. While the 1st cavalry regiment was in Uman, there was an attempt on the part of the cavalrymen to disarm by night some Jewish soldiers of a Skvira regiment, quartered in Uman.
18. It is quite comprehensible that under such conditions it was wholly out of the question to organize any regular plan of punishment of that part of the pogromists which remained as before among the inhabitants of the outskirts of the city, or to search out the goods they had stolen and hidden and return them to the suffering poor folk. Some steps in that direction taken during the first days of the return of the Soviet regime were soon completely abandoned. Thus many instigators of the pogrom and massacre, and direct participants therein, who themselves were prepared for repressive measures, found it possible to cover their tracks and hide the stolen property in good shape, while remaining entirely unpunished.
What is set forth in this report and its appendices is confirmed by the signatures:
(Signatures.)
III. Testimony of Mania Benievna Zhuravskaia, Student, Aged 22
When the rebels entered the city on May 12, on the first day at 5 P.M. they surrounded the Kahan house on Kievskaya St., in which our apartment is located. When the first shots resounded, the frightened inhabitants of the house gathered in our apartment, and thus many people came together with us— men, women, and children. We all hid in the back room. After firing on the house they knocked at the door of our apartment. We immediately opened the door, and many rebels entered with rifles in their hands, the visors of their caps turned back.
Their first question was: "Are there any bolsheviki here?" Then they asked if we had any weapons. When we answered both questions in the negative, they let out a volley of marketplace invective on us, in which the following expressions predominated: "It's impossible that Jews should not have weapons,