Murder Story of Sinelnikovo Jews at the Housing Cooperative in Sinelnikovo

In his position of police [gendarmerie] chief, Guck (his first and father’s name could not be established) …carried out mass arrests of Party and government activists (especially Jews). On Guck’s orders in the city of Sinelnikovo alone as many as 120 Party and government activists were physically annihilated. The shootings were carried out in a brutal way: the arrested Soviet civilians were generally taken from the police station [office] in covered trucks at the end of the day. On the way to the site of the mass shootings (buildings of the housing cooperative on the southern outskirts of the city) traces of blood were seen after a truck passed with people who had been arrested and were being taken to be shot. This indicates that the arrested people had been brutally beaten….

…On May 13, 1942 alone the punitive institutions of the occupiers subjected 200 people of Jewish nationality to arrest and shooting … All these atrocities, which were committed by the German-fascist occupiers, were carried out in the area of the housing cooperative…