Murder story of Poltava Jews in the Poltava Area

1.Wife Tsilya Aronovna Brodskaya – born in Minsk, 1905, maiden name Zlotnik, 2.Daughter Lusya Brodskaya - born in Poltava, 1928 3.Daughter Klava Brodskaya “ 1930 4.Son Volodya Brodsky “ 1935 5.Son Arkady Brodsky “ 1937 6.Son Leonid Brodsky “ 1939 My wife was pregnant. Our daughter Lusya was 12, she escaped from the murder site and ran to our yard, where she remained for two days. After that she was caught and hanged. A military unit was located in the yard. According to what neighbors told me, when all the Jews were ordered to go to…the park, my wife carried the youngest child in her arms and held the rest of the children by the hand and went off, but they returned after having gone halfway. They were taken from our home in a truck. This took place a month after the Germans occupied Poltava in September 1941....

Dear Comrade Brodsky, I would like to let you know that I have fulfilled your commission to learn about your family’s fate. I went to the address where you used to live to find the neighbors and I spoke with them…[They] said: ...About a month after the occupation began the Germans ordered all the Jewish families to take their valuables with them and to come to … the park, to which all your family came. Then they were taken out of the city and brutally shot by the Germans. That was your family’s fate. October 10, 1944