No photo of Sara Fischkin has survived.
“People are saying that they are deporting the workers and their families and are shooting those left behind.
Everyone is frightened, no one knows what to do or how best to act.”
In her diary the schoolgirl Sara Fischkin describes the constant threat in the ghetto.
It is 8 May 1942. A few days later the Jews in the small Belorussian town of Rubyeshevitshi begin to pack.
“The gendarmes and two policemen from Ivyenets force their way into the houses and beat to death the people inside. The poor Jews are standing on the marketplace with their little children and wait for permission to put their luggage on the truck. Those left behind keep hidden and mentally prepare for death. There is no other way out.”
Sara Fischkin is not deported that day. She has to continue working for the Germans.
The ghetto in Rubyeshevitshi is dissolved a month later. Sara Fischkin is transported to a labour camp, along with her mother and an aunt. She is shot there in December 1942. Her diary is found in her hometown after her death and given to her brother Jakov.