Murder story of Chongar Jews in the Chongar Area

… In September 1941 the entire population of the Chongar rural council was evacuated by the Red Army to the Kolaysky District of the Crimea and remained there until the Germans occupied the Crimea. During the evacuation there were about 5 families with us. When the German fascist occupiers entered the Crimea, they began to arrest and shoot Jewish families. Zheka [Evgeniy] Poluy, who returned from the Crimea to his village, recounted the following: all the Jewish families, including their young children, were put on trucks and taken to Dzhankoy, where all of them were shot. He managed to escape from there and returned to location # 9 of the Chongar rural council, where he had lived previously. While in the village, he was caught by the police and was shot in Popovka village of the Chongar rural council. The following Jewish families were evacuated to the Crimea and did not come back: 1.Semyon Poluy, his wife, and their son 2.Raya Poluy and her 4 young children [Raya was probably the daughter-in-law of the above] 3.Isaya Kogan, his wife, and their 3 children 4.Rakhmin Pyatigorskiy and his wife 5.Zyama Polyakov and his wife and child A total of 18 people were shot, as indicated on the list....

... At the end of 1941 and in 1942 the German fascist occupiers shot 25 totally innocent people, including 18 Jews, 9 out of whom were children between the ages of 2 and 10....