On May 12, when the rebels entered the city, I was in the apartment of the dentist Schultz, in Dr. Bravermann's house on Sadovaya Street. During the course of the entire day rebels kept coming into our apartment on the pretext of looking for weapons. Among the searchers it was often noticeable that intellectuals participated, such as teachers, etc. Many of them, who knew Schultz personally, told the rebels that in this apartment there certainly were no weapons, and they went away. Thus May 12 passed for us without any complications. Towards evening we, with Dr. Bravermann, began to consider how we should spend the night, in view of the persistent rumors in town that during the night of the 12th of May a St. Bartholomew's eve would be perpetrated. On Dr. Bravermann's suggestion we decided to spend the night in the garret At midnight I, Dr. Bravermann's family, the family of the dentist Schultz, and the family of the shoemaker Schumann, who lived in the same house, went up into the garret, taking up after us the ladder by which we had climbed up. We spent the night quietly. On the next day at 6 A.M., May 13, Dr. Bravermann got down from the garret to see what was happening in his apartment. He did not return to us again. As was discovered afterwards, Dr. Bravermann was shot by rebels who were in his apartment, and who evidently had been waiting since the night for the owners of the apartment. Half an hour after DJT, £ravermanj? left us, by the same ladder by which the doctor had gone down, there came up to us in the garret a number of rebels, clothed in soldiers' garments, in caps with the visors turned back (a distinguishing mark of the rebels). Two of them loaded guns and commanded the women and children to go down from the garret, while the men were to stay. We men, who were left, namely myself, the shoemaker Schumann, the dentist Schultz and his son, a student, Mikhail, decided that the shoemaker Schumann and I should go forward and have an explanation with the rebels. When we came out of the corner and began to say that we would furnish documents, two of the rebels pointed the barrels of their guns at us. At this time the dentist Schultz and his son cried: "We surrender." Then, without warning, came the shots. The shoemaker and I were wounded in the legs. I fell covered with blood. Then the group of rebels left the garret. I did not lose consciousness, and I began to argue with Schultz and his son that they should go down from the garret, to avoid a second coming of the rebels. They obeyed me and went down. Not until three or four hours after we were wounded did there come a rebel officer, with several men, to us in the garret, and at his direction the shoemaker and I were let down by ropes. Towards evening I was carried to the Red Cross Hospital on a stretcher. On the way we were often stopped and the sanitaries were asked whom they were carrying. They replied, a wounded Pole. Almost at the very entrance to the Red Cross Hospital some rebel stopped our bearers and in a threatening tone demanded whom the sanitaries were carrying; and his finger rested on the trigger of his revolver. The sanitaries, realizing that my life depended literally on their answer, kept their heads and replied that they were carrying a man sick of a dangerous, contagious disease, and that if the questioner approached nearer to the stretcher, he, too, would catch it. This answer had its effect and the rebel went away. As it turned out, I was wounded by a tearing bullet. My right leg was amputated. At present I must still remain three weeks in the hospital; I am beginning to learn to use crutches. The shoemaker Schumann who was also taken to the hospital, died there after an operation for amputation of a leg.
J. POLONSKY.
V. Testimony of Fenia Polischuk, Student, 23 Years
On May 12, when the rebels entered the city, we were in our own apartment in the Kahan house on Kievskaya Street. Through
UKRAINE