Murder story of Karpachi Jews in the Collective Farm Garden in the Karpachi Area

In early November 1941 all the Jews of the village of Karpachi were taken to a collective farm garden located next to the Sosnovka River, near the spot where it was joined by the Konokhovka River (today the site is covered by an artificial lake). There Jews were forced to dig a pit and were shot by local policemen under German command. Some Jews managed to escape. Raisa Shkolnikova, who was among those taken to be killed, suceeded in getting away. Three Jews, including the wife and son of the former head of the Jewish Collective Farm in Karpachi, were hidden in the nearby village of Tarasevichi by a Russian woman named Marya, but later they were shot and buried, along with Marya, by local policemen. According to the evidence of local residents, during the war the Russian woman Anna Martynova from Karpachi hid a Jewish boy who had come to the village from Leningrad before the war started.