Murder story of Golovchin Jews in the Budki Ravine

... The first shootings took place in the fall, in September, of 1941 in a ditch in the grove of Budki. No monument marks the site. There is a reservoir there now so you can’t even get close to the place. Then there was a small rivulet with no name, not far from the shooting site….The Jewess Sima Evseevna had married the Belorusian Nikifor Drakin. He was assigned to combat and was killed in 1942. They had two small children, 6-year old Sergei and 8-year old Galina. The wife did not even attempt to leave. She and the children lived with her husband’s elderly parents. Someone denounced them and Sima and the children were shot to death in December 1941. ... The Komsomol activist Chaya Shenderovna Izakson was killed in 1942. It is not known where she was hiding before her death, whether some people hid her in their house or whether she was with a partisan unit. … In Golovchin they shot a total of 126 local Jews: 52 were males and 74 females.... They forced 67 people into the Belynichi ghetto and then shot them in the Zadrutskaya quarter [of the town] on December 12, 1941. The rest were shot here in the Budki grove near Golovchin. The victims were born between the years of 1876 (Mota German) and 1940....