On  Sun, 23 May 2010 I was contacted by Marilynn Beychok Bloom with the following letter:

“ Hi Nina,

Germans occupied Kupel on July 6, 1941, in the morning. Semen Shlaen, who visited Kupel short after its liberation by the Soviet Army, wrote in a letter to Chaim Beider, that their Ukrainian classmates, young men, who used to seat on the same bench with them, were actively involved in murdering of Jews.  There are some stories, more to follow.