W Sakowicz was a Polish journalist. He lived at Ponar, and was himself killed during the last days of German rule in Vilna.

He had noted in his diary that shooting was carried on every day. The executioners began to sell the clothing of those killed.

From his notes: "People say that about five thousand persons have been killed in the course of July. It is quite possible, two to three hundred people are driven up here every day, and nobody ever returns.....

30 July 1942. About one hundred and fifty persons shot, most elderly people. The executioners complain about being very tired of their 'work', or having aching shoulders from the shooting.

That is the reason for not finishing off the wounded, so they are buried half alive.

2 August, Monday. Shooting of big batches is starting once again. Today about four thousand people were driven up, shot by eighty executioners. All drunk. The fence was guarded by one hundred soldiers and policemen.

This time terrible tortures before shooting. Nobody buried the murdered. The people were driven straight into the pit, the corpses were trampled upon. The wounded writhed with pain. Nobody finished them off."

Source

The Holocaust - Martin Gilbert, page 178