Murder Story of Tsyurupinsk Jews at the Tsyurupa Collective Farm

…On this day, in the presence of the Commission members, I, the forensic expert Kovalenkova, carried out an examination of the bodies exhumed from the graves …2 kilometers east of Tsyurupinsk, 20 meters to the left of the highway leading from Tsyurupinsk to Radensk (two graves). 20 bodies were found in the first grave, while the second grave contained about 800 bodies.… Gunshot wounds were discovered during the examination of individual bodies. These had apparently been inflicted by firearms, [such as] submachine guns. These [wounds] were the cause of death….

…On this day, the Commission examined the sites of the atrocities committed by the German-Fascist occupiers. Two graves were discovered 2 kilometers east of the town of Tsyurupinsk, 20 meters to the left of the highway.… The decomposed bodies of men, women, and children were found in the second grave. According to a forensic expert, both children (ranging from nursing infants to individuals aged 10-15) and adults were buried in this grave. The grave contains the bodies of mostly Jewish residents [of the Tsyurupinsk County], numbering about 800.

…I know that, after they had occupied the territory of Tsyurupinsk County, in October 1941 the German occupiers began to carry out mass shootings of Soviet civilians and of the Jewish population. All the Jews of the county were rounded up on the pretext of being sent to work in ... [1 word is illegible]. This group [1 word is illegible] was shot. The shootings were carried out by SD armed squads… at an anti-tank trench in the area of the Tsyurupa vineyard. Children, elderly people, women, and men – [a total of] about 800 people – were shot there….