Borshchiv Ghetto

On 19 April 1943 German and Ukrainian police shot about 800 people in a Jewish cemetery (in the outskirts of town, on the road to Verkhnyakivtsi).

[4] Several Jewish physicians from the ghetto were saved by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), where they helped in the fight against the Nazis.

For example, Saul and Esther Stermer, their six children, and several other Jewish families from Korolivka hid in Verteba Cave near Bilche-Zolote.

[7] In 1993, a police officer from New York and an amateur caver found the remains of their settlement in Priest's Grotto cave.

In this mass grave are buried thousands of Jewish residents of Korolivka, Borshchiv, Skala-Podilska, Ozeryany, Melnytsia-Podilska and Kryvche, murdered by the Nazis in 1941–1943.

In April 2005, Reader's Digest published an article by Peter Lane Taylor's "Underground" about Zaid Shtermer and others left in caves.

[12] American documentary filmmaker Janet Tobias in her film No Place on Earth described the life of Jews who were hiding in the Verteba and Priest's Grotto caves.