Murder Story of Kalinindorf Jews at the Kalinindorf Vineyard

... They sky on September 16, 1941 was overcast. On that day Soviet civilians who were inhabitants of the Jewish colonies of Tatarka, Kalinindorf, Nevel, and Bobrovy Kut were murdered. According to local Ukrainians, German soldiers cordoned off all the roads around the colonies, forced everyone from young to old out of their houses, and took them to large deep pits that had been dug beforehand. Grape vines were growing on the far side [of the pits]. The shooting started in the morning of the same day, which was a grey, dark day, as if nature were mourning the innocent victims. The cries of the children, women, and the elderly could be heard beyond the kolkhoz. The shooting lasted the whole day. Exactly at 12 noon there was a break in the shooting. The marksmen needed to eat. Only a few guards remained. I know everything - how much blood was spilled, [about] the cries of the wounded, [and about] the earth that was drenched in warm human blood and heaved. The next day they buried the bodies of the victims. The inhabitants told me about the 7-8 year old boy who had been hiding and returned home the next day, his name was Syomele Veselnitski. The boy's life was short, he was put to death immediately. In this manner the honest Jewish toilers who earned their lives on the kolkhoz were shot....