On the evening of the same day the detachment's baggagetrain arrived. The alarm among the Jews increased. Some of them, employees of the factory, ran to the factory grounds and hid in various of the factory barns. The night, however, went off quietly. On the next day a rumor spread that the baggage-train was departing. The employees were on the point of dispersing to their homes, when people came from the town with the terrible news that the pogrom had started. Soon the news of the first murders arrived. A terrible panic broke out at the factory among the Jewish employees. The Christian workmen, employees, skilled artisans, and guards, were quite indifferent to all that was taking place. They did not respond to the proposal of the Jewish employees to organize a guard for the factory. One employee proposed to send to the secheviki a delegation from the factory committee, the local Russian intellectuals, the officialdom, and the orthodox and catholic clergy; to which the president of the committee replied that "this would be not at all suitable, that it did not come within their competence, and that in general the Christian religion did not permit the defense of people of other faiths."
In the town itself there were left only few Jews who had not gone out to the factory. In the course of the day the secheviki visited all the houses and beat half to death whomever they caught in them. This went on all day Friday and Saturday. The secheviki took only money, watches, and the most valuable articles. After them hundreds of peasants followed, men and women, who literally took everything out of the houses.
On Friday two soldiers of the mounted detachment came to the factory grounds. This time they did no more than take several sacks of sugar from the storehouse on the orders of their leader. Some Christian workmen and employees at last consented to form a guard from their own midst, in the house of the manager of the factory, where many Jewish employees were concealed. It is curious to note that the only employee of the factory who showed himself very active in the defense of it was D., a former member of the Union of the Russian People (the reactionary Nationalist Party, the organizer of the "Black Hundreds").
On Saturday, March 29, the secheviki came to the abovementioned home of the manager of the factory. The presence
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of the Christian workmen, and the external quiet and calm with which they were met by the owners, somewhat confused the bandits, and they only asked to be permitted to wash and have something to eat. Having washed and eaten, they started to look for weapons. The head of the gang said to a student, the son of the owner of the house: "Don't look on me as a man, I am a wolf, because I am a sechevik." These words they repeated frequently. They visited the factory nearly twenty times; each time they were bought off with money. On Monday, March 31, the pogrom quieted down somewhat. On Friday, April 4, the secheviki broke loose again for several hours, after which, under pressure of the Soviet forces, they left the town.
TOWN OF ANNOPOL ( F VOLHYNIA) To the Central Section for the Relief of Victims of Pogroms
From Krupnik, a Citizen of the Town of Annopol W''.:.,•'.:••
From the very first day of the occupation of Ukraine by the Petlurist forces, small detachments of Petlurists began to arrive in the town of Annopol, who unmercifully looted the Jewish population, but did no killing. After one occurrence, when a Petlurist robbed a soldier who had just returned from captivity in Germany and who offered resistance, the Petlurists began beating people up, and in one day eight were killed and about sixty wounded. The wounded, afraid of being shot, did not show themselves on the street, and died for lack of treatment.