Jewish firemen

... At the same time, a second group of Nazi officers pulled the elderly and ill out of line, shoving them onto wagons heading for the ghetto cemetery. There the Jew- ish firemen, under orders from Friedl, had excavated a large number of pits. Many groups of several hundred Jews were brought to the cemetery on the wagons; Fried! would arrive, issuing instructions for the elderly and ill Jews to be pushed to the edge of the pits. He would then fire his gun, which signaled other Nazi sol- diers to open a barrage of gunfire. The victims, riddled with bullets, fell into the pit. Those who were still alive were pushed into the mass grave, which was imme- diately covered with earth. ...