Murder Story of Gofental at a Pit in Gofental

… On this date the Commission carried out an examination of the [local] sites of atrocities committed by the German-Fascist occupiers. In the course of the examination one grave was discovered in the village of Gofental, in the Karl-Marx rural council area, in a field 100 meters west of Gofental village, in which [the grave] there were 7 bodies, 4 of men and 3 of women; all of them clothed. The shooting was carried out by firearms, rifles. It was established, on the basis of testimony from the eyewitness Yelizaveta Fedorenko, who lives in Gofental village that the shooting of innocent Soviet residents was carried out in October 1941 at the site where the bodies were found. The shooting was carried out by a resident of Gofental village, the [ethnic] German Otto Gutengazer, on orders of the gendarmerie....

…In October 1941 7 Jews, 4 men and 3 women, were shot in Gofental village. The shooting was carried out by a resident of Gofental village, the [ethnic] German Otto Adamovich Gutengazer and an ethnic Ukrainian living in Kalinindorf whose last name I do not know. All 7 people were buried in a single grave 100 meters west of Gofental village, [all of them were] buried in their clothes: 1)Leyba Miksin, 2) his wife Agrafena Miksin 3) Alka (?), Zubin 4) her mother Hanna Zubina, plus two [other] Zubin children, and a seventh person whose name is not known.