Murder Story of Komintern Kolkhoz Jews at the Zhivodyorovskiy Well

…On this date the commission carried out an examination of the sites of atrocities committed by the German-Fascist occupiers. The examination found an abandoned well 2.5 kilometers southeast of the Komintern collective farm, in the area of the Sholom [Aleichem] rural council, on the territory of the Stalin collective farm, in the area of the Khrushchovka rural council. The shooting of innocent Jewish residents, including 13 men, 37 women and 32 children, a total of 82 people, was carried out at this well…

... The citizen Anastasiya Artemovna Kotova and Marfa Filipovna Mazhora, who live on the Komintern collective farm, in the area of the Sholom [Aleichem] rural council, in Kalininskoye [Kalinindorf] County, Kherson [Nikolayev, during the war] District testified… that a mass shooting of 82 Jews was carried out on the Komintern collective farm on September 25, 1941. They [the Jews] were first held in the [local] school building and then taken under guard to a well 2.5 kilometers southeast of the village. There the shooting was carried out and the [bodies] of the [Jewish] residents were thrown into the well. The commandant Askard (?), an SS detachment, [and two individuals] Emma Chemeshpak (?) [and] someone named Spilnyi, who assisted in throwing the Soviet people into the well, participated in this action….