Murder Story of Krasnopolye Jews at the Krasnopolye Russian Orthodox Cemetery

...At the end of November 1941 a German murder squad arrived in Krasnopolye. On the same day the Jews, consisting of small children and nursing infants, teenagers, women, and old men, were forced into the People's House (formerly the county Culture House). Later they were all lined up in a column and taken out of Krasnopolye and shot in an anti-tank trench next to the Krasnopolye cemetery. The people were forced into the trench while alive and then shot by machine gun-fire. On that day a total of 350 people were shot. The [bodies of] Jews shot at the anti-tank ditch were partially covered with earth, others were not covered at all. The putrid odor spread throughout the town. The property of the Jews who were shot was looted by the police with the permission of the German authorities...