Murder Story of Arkhangelskoye Jews in a Stone Quarry in Arkhangelskoye

…On September 20, 1941 the German commandant of Arkhangelskoye village Karl Adamovich Malyar; chief of the rural administration Ivan Feys [or Feye] (I do not remember his patronymic); chief of the Arkhangelskoye village police Nikita Ignatovich Kucheryavyi, who was a resident of Arkhangelskoye village who fled with the Germans; the policeman Pavel Slyusko (I do not remember his patronymic), who also fled with the Germans; the policeman Ilya Stepura (I do not know his patronymic), who was a resident of Arkhangelskoye village and who is now serving with the Red Army; Yermolai Vybrik (I do not know his patronymic),who was a resident of Arkhangelskoye village and who fled with the Germans; the policeman Nikita Kurilenko [or Kurylenko] (I know either his patronymic or where he is now) - [all of the above] arrested residents of Arkhangelskoye village, Bolshaya Aleksandrovka County, Kherson [during the war Nikolayev] District: … Roza Kampaneets (I do not remember her patronymic), of Jewish nationality, Riva Patent (I do not remember her patronymic), of Jewish nationality, Frida Patent, who was born in 1924 (I do not remember her patronymic,) of Jewish nationality, and the Kukuis-husband and wife (I do not remember their first names), of Jewish nationality - all of these were arrested and taken to the rural administration building. The arrestees were guarded by the policemen Pavel Slyusko and Nikolai Kurilenko. On the second day…Frida Patent, Riva Patent, Roza Kampaneets, and Mr. and Mrs. Kukui, guarded by the policemen Ilya Stepura, Pavel Slyusko, Yermolai Vybrik, and Nikita Ignatovich Kucheryavyi, were taken out of Arkhangelskoye village to a bore pit (a stone quarry) where SS-men were waiting for them. The policemen Ilya Stepura, Pavel Slyusko, Yermolai Vybrik, and Nikita Kucheryavyi participated in shooting of the latter [group]… At the time of the shooting, i.e. before the shooting itself, Roza Kampaneets, Riva Patent, Frida Patent and Mr. and Mrs. Kukui were forced to undress by the policemen, who divided their clothes between them.

…On September 20, 1941…the residents of Arkhangelskoye village…Roza Kampaneets, of Jewish nationality; Riva Patent, and Frida Patent (I do not know their patronymics) and the Kukuis - wife and husband (I don't know either their first names or patronymics)- all of them were arrested and held at the Arkhangelskoye village rural administration building, where I was working at the time as a cleaning woman. They were guarded by the policemen Nikita Kurilenko [or Kurylenko] and Pavel Slyusko. On the next day, i.e. September 21, 1941…they were taken outside Arkhangelskoye village to a bore pit (stone quarry) and shot… [T]he group [of Jews] was taken by the policemen Kucheryavyi, Stepura, Slyusko, Vybrik, and Kurylenko. The group that included Frida Patent, Riva Patent, Roza Kampaneets, and Mr. and Mrs. Kukui was taken…outside Arkhangelskoye village. They were forced to undress before being shot, then they were shot. Their clothes were divided up among themselves by the policemen…

…On this date the commission carried out an examination of the sites of atrocities of the German-Romanian occupiers and their toadies… 11 severely decomposed bodies, including those of 5 (five) males and of 6 (six) females that were arranged haphazardly were found by digging in the first grave near Arkhangelskoye village, Bolshaya Aleksandrovka County, Kherson [during the war Nikolayev] District. Five of the bodies were naked. Most of the bodies had traces of bullet wounds in the area of the back of the head. In the opinion of our forensic expert the wounds were caused by firearms such as submachine-guns, Parabellum pistols, and rifles… The testimony of the witnesses Maria Dmitrievna Sitnik[ova] and Darya Vasilyevna Velikaya established that the shooting of those innocent Soviet civilians whose bodies were exhumed from the first grave was carried out on September 21, 1941 by an SS squad, the last names of [the members of] which could not be established, and by Karl Adamovich Malyar, Ivan Feye, Nikita Ignatyevich Kucheryavyi , Pavel Slyusko, Ilya Stepura, Yermolai Vybrik, Nikita Kurylenko, Panas Mikhailovich Gorenko …