Murder Story of Ikor Jews at the Karpiy Wells

- When I came here I was 3 years old. My brother… if my grandfather had not known the Germans, they would have shot him as well. - Why? - They [non-Jews including his brother] were playing with kids from Jewish families… then they came with cars… I kind of remember… In the old village – Karpii – there were Tartars … - It was an old well… right on that spot - How deep was it? - This one was some 70 meters deep, that one - 30 meters deep… - The [murder] operation in your village when your brother was almost shot… do you remember when it was? - Not really, I was a little boy. I only remember a conversation I had with my grandfather. He rode a bicycle to the well where the Jews were being held and they almost shot him. - Do you mean Jews from your village? - Yes - You said they were shooting them: were they shooting people one by one? - They brought groups of people there. I don’t know if they were shooting people and throwing them into it [the well], or just throwing them there. My grandfather said they were shooting. - How did he know? - He went there to take my brother. - So everything you know about it you learned from your grandfather? - Yes.

-This is the only memorial to the Jewish people who were shot here… There was a woman and her two children. They all were shot here. This is Abrikosovka – that is Romashkino – there was a village called Karpei that had a well. That village no longer exists: it was not here when we came here in 1963. There was a well. - Is the well still there? - Yes. - They threw people into that well – they both shot people and just threw them into it [the well]. My late husband and I used to go there to pick the first spinach… but, then, we were afraid to go there because it seemed that one could hear moaning...