Murder Story of Odessa Jews in Dalnik

On the evening of October 22, 1941 Soviet saboteurs exploded a mine and destroyed the Romanian city commandant's office and killed the commandant, his entire staff, and several German officers. At noon the following day Jews of all ages and both sexes were taken to a local prison, from which they were taken the next day to Dalnik, several kilometers west of Odessa. On the day of their arrival a group of 40-50 people was selected. They were tied together with rope, and then thrown into a pit and shot dead. The remaining 5,000 people were put into four barracks - the men in three and the women and children into the fourth. The walls of the barracks had holes into which the barrels of machine guns were inserted. On October 24 the men in the first barrack were shot with these machine guns. When the perpetrators saw that this murder was taking too much time, they decided to seal the holes and windows of the barracks, poured gasoline into the barracks, and then set them on fire. The Jews who tried to break out of the inferno were shot down with rifles or killed with grenades. On that day and the next the inmates of two more barracks were murdered in a similar way. In the evening of October 25 the last barrack was blown up with dynamite. The perpetrators of this massacre were members of the 2nd and 10th Romanian Infantry Divisions.