Murder Story of Chausy Jews in a Former Military Camp near Chausy

… In 1942, my father [Boris Shusterman], and I, and many others – mostly from mixed families – were arrested by the Gestapo. I don't know who denounced my father. The policeman Kovalev, an acquaintance of my mother [Anya], was there. He said that he would bring her to say goodbye to my father. Then my father said [to my mother]: ‘Anya, do everything you can to save Nina. I can no longer be saved…’ He was incarcereted in solitary confinement in the prison. That evening, June 17, 1942, he was shot to death, along with sixteen other people at the ravine at the [former] military camp. Later there were other murders of Jews and partisans in that place. Women who worked peeling potatoes for the Germans saw the murder take place outside the window [of the German kitchen where they worked]; they saw my father fall to the ground. I don't know the exact place of his death, but I can guess on the basis of the location of the window of the German kitchen facility that remained. The place is now filled with half-ruined warehouses, built after the war. It is also the site where partisans, members of the Communist Youth League, and ordinary civilians were murdered throughout the entire occupation period…. The children of mixed marriages, mostly of Russian mothers, were released. I was also released…. However, a month or two later those children were rounded up again. The next day they were shot in the military camp where they had earlier killed my father....