Joe Kubryk - Punishment for murdering Jewish partisans
Transcript: But we had a very difficult time in the partisans among our own soldiers. What happen is we had Ukrainians, we had people from Pole, pole, Polish soldiers that they escaped from the prisons of Juaros and came to the partisans, and we had Russians. None of them really liked the Jews. And we had situations when we went out for a minute for instance to mine up a bridge but on the way back on the job, the same Ukrainians, or Polacks, or the Russians even would kill the Jewish partisans and come back and tell the commanding officer, "Oh those guys were killed on action." It, it, eh, it was like two or three times it repeated, the same repetition, until we caught into it. And, my commander, which was the commander of the junior secret service was a Jewish man and we came back and reported to him what's happening, he went in return and reported to the chief of the unit, to the chief of the brigade. And, eh, the chief, eh, immediately didn't take any action. He ignored it. Eventually it pierced through his head, because, we were giving him conditions that either we will get off this unit and we will report it to Moscow, or he will take action and sure enough he took out, he researched it and he took out eighteen partisans, non-Jewish, those that were shooting the Jewish partisans. And there was a court marshal, and they were court marshaled to be hung on the trees in the forest. And at this time, that situation stopped after that hanging because they saw that they can not get away with it.