Murder Story of Katerinovka Jews at the Katerinovka Crossroads

... On September 21, 1941 Germans arrived in the village in two covered trucks. They encountered a 67-year-old Jew. Some Germans who had gotten out of the cabin [of one of the trucks] started to talk to him. When he was let go, he attempted to get away but the old man was shot and killed. After this the trucks drove to the kolkhoz, picked up all the Jews working there, and took them to the village, after ordering them to collect all their family members and to come within 20 minutes to one of the houses for a meeting. When everyone had gathered, German soldiers accompanied by the fascist accomplice, a former follower of Makhno, Daniil Lysanov, went through the huts searching for hidden [Jews] and, at the same time, collecting shovels from the huts. All the assembled Jews were surrounded by a convoy of soldiers and taken to the murder site near a crossroads, where the men were forced to dig graves not far from the colony. At the same spot 45 men were shot first, including Boris Golbut, age 47, and his two sons - 8-year old Syoma and 14-year old Victor; Sholom Khilkevich, age 45 and 5 members of his family - his children, his wife, and his 72 year old mother; Mr. Marmor, age 67, his 70 year old wife, their son Izya, age 17, and his daughter, age 10; Yakov Yamnitskiy, age 35, a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the head of the kolkhoz, along with his wife Khana, age 35 and their two children, Lina and 6-month old Golda. On that day a total of 92 people were shot....