Murder story of Komzetovka Jews in the Stone Quarry in the Komzetovka Area

On March 13, 1942 a group of German gendarmes arrived in Komzetovka together with a Russian policeman named German [Herman] Iogan. Along with the betrayer of our homeland, the policeman Ivan Ivanovich Balabas, they took the kolkhoz members Sarra Yakovlena Red'ko (age 65), Alla Shaposhnikova (30), Roza Iosifovna Meshcheryakova (35), and the latter's 7-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son 200 metres from the village and shot them at a grave that had been prepared in advance. The veteran kolkhoz member 60-year-old Gershon Iosifovich Red'ko could not endure the vicious mockery of the German monsters and hanged himself... When the grave was excavated, the bones of all six victims were discovered....

...In March 1942 4 gendarmes I did not know arrived from Yevpatoria by cart in our village of Komzetovka. They - the gendarmes, assisted by the village elder Sosnov and the policeman I. I. Balabas, arrested 6 Jewish inhabitants of our village, one of whom was my mother-in-law Sarra Yakovlevna Red'ko, and shot all of them outside the village at the place where stone was quarried. After that the gendarmes left...