Murder Story of Khotimsk Jews on Kolkhoznaya Street in Khotimsk

To Comarde V.N. Belokrylov, the secretary of the Khotimsk County Communist Party committee from B. V. Levertov, member of the CPSU and former partisan of detachment no. 2 of the "Vpered" Brigade; resident of the city of Mogilev, T. Karpinskaya Lane, house no. 12, apt. 3. <...> Based on information of the Khotimsk County executive committee, a list has been compiled of historical monuments located on the territory of Khotimsk County. The list does not include the grave where 18 people are buried, which is located in the urban settlement of Khotimsk, on Vtoraya Kolkhoznaya Street, in the kitchen garden near the home of Citizeness Avdiushkina, next to the savings bank, not far from the boarding school. In this kitchen garden, in 1942, the Germans shot [a number of] Soviet citizens…. [In the list of murdered people which is included in the letter at least ten have Jewish last names.] <...> Respectfully yours, Boris Levertov August 2, 1967 the city of Mogilev, Belorussian SSR