Murder Story of Kalinindorf Jews at the Shekhim Well

-What happened to those Jews during the war? - Well, I don’t know their names. They brought them to the well and shot everybody: children and adults. Innocent people! - When you say that they were shot, and that the earth was heaving, how do you know that? - My little brother… near the collective farm, there was a corn field. My little brother was picking the corn, and he saw the trucks and people with rifles. Then he came home and he was trembling, and Mom asked what happened. He said: “Mom, we just saw a head fall near us.” Of course, it was so cruel! So Mom asked where it happened, and he said that it was at the well. - So you know that from your brother’s words? - Yes. His name was Tolia, but he is not alive anymore. - When was he born? - In 1927. - So he just happened to be there with other children and saw it? - Yes, he was just picking the corn. Then they fell down and were afraid to get up since they were afraid of being killed. They waited until the trucks and the motorcycles passed (they were going towards Kalinino). Afterwards someone at the village said that half of the Jews had been killed. Some Russians were killed, too. - How do you know that? - People told me. - What was there, on that spot, before the killing? - There was a small village. - What was it called? - Urman. - Did people still live there, or was it abandoned? - People did live there. No one is alive now, though. - Is this village still there? - No. - Does anyone know how many people were killed? - No. - Approximately: ten, twenty, a hundred? - I think more. My brother said there was more than one truck. They finished off them cruelly. - Was there a well? - Yes. They fell into the well.