Sept. 21, 1941 -Erev Rosh Hashana - Orders to sew yellow round patches on clothing, one on the front, one on back. Soon after - Issac was summoned for work. While at work he was kicked and beaten sense-
Aug. 14, 1942 - Town entrances are guarded by Ukrainians. No one is allowed in or out. The ghetto gate was still open. Aug. 16, 1942 - Early Sunday morning - Issac, Rose, Hannah, and Luba tried to escape the ghetto. The plan was to go to Pavlo Gerashen- chuk’s farm, in Choopkov (4 km). A creek blocked the way. The nearby bridge was guarded. Ten small farmers’ children (6-10) stopped Issac and his family. Issac paid them to help them cross. They kept hounding him and his family for money. He kept paying them. His two children understood every- thing and were scared to death. When there was no more money the young boys report- ed them to the guards. Issac and his fami- ly ran, but they were caught and beaten. An SS man on a motorcycle stumbled upon them being beaten. Crying, Issac said he was trying to give his eldest daughter away to a farmer because they have no food. The SS man said, “Did you read the order which said that anyone leaving town would be killed.” Unbelievably, he stopped the beating and told them to go back to the ghetto. Instead they went to his mother‑in‑law’s house. They were all in shock upon arrival. Kol Nidre, Sept. 20, 1942 - Issacc and fami- ly went to the synagogue. Everybody, men, women, and children, cried with their last strength. They prayed to God to save our lives, at least the lives of our small, innocent, children. This would be their last Kol Nidre in Tuchin. Two or three big graves were being dug near the town on the way to the village Roochite. Issac and Rose give their daughter Hannah(11) to the Lamatchike Family. 10:00 am, The Nazis order gold, watches, leather for boots, and new suits to be deliv- ered by 12 the same day or 100 Jews will be taken. The materials are delivered in time. Noted family in the ghetto: Pearl (Issac’s wife); Luba (daughter); Miriam(Issac’s sister), Yudel Snyder (husband of sister), Yentel (18, Miriam’s daughter); Sarah (28, Issac sister -unmarried); Elek (25, Issac’s brother); many uncles, aunts, and cousins; Dovaree (58, Pearl’s mother); Sarah (23, Pearl’s sister); Ester
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less. Unconscious, he awoke an hour later and got beaten again. He got kicked under the heart, and between the legs. The beating only stopped with the promise of some good boot leather. October 26, 1941 - Rivne, near a park called Grabnick, a mass grave was dug. October 29, 1941 Morning - Rivne. All Jews without working papers were told to report to the center of town. 20,000 men, women, and children reported. They were ordered to place all their possessions in one spot. Then ordered to place all their jewelry, rings, and watches in another pile. Then to lay all their passports and papers down. Last they were ordered to remove their coats and clothing. This last order led to bedlam. Nazi SS soldiers wear- ing white gloves waited with machine guns. The Jews were gunned down. The Ukraini- ans threw them in the graves. Some of the victims were not dead, but they threw them in, too. The bodies were covered with dirt. 4000 - 5000 survivors were placed in a ghetto. Aug. 9, 1942 - Rivne. Jewish survivers killed Sunday, Sept. 20, 1942 - 4 days before Yom Kippur - Jews in the countryside were told that we had until Sept 21 to be in the ghetto. Any Jews found outside the ghetto would be killed. On the same day the wife of the school princi- pal, Mrs. Lamatchuk, (50 child-less) a Czecho- slovakian, brought an order to the home Issac built that he had to evacuate immediately and move to the ghetto. She was expected to move in that day. That same woman (50, child- less) said to Issac perhaps she should keep his daughter Hannah!
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