On September 30, 1941 21 Jews living on the Rozvalina Farmstead, including three families of refugees from Bessarabia, two families of deportees from Varvarovka, and a Jew from Nikolayev were taken from the farmstead by Romanian policemen and, after being brutally abused, were shot to death in a ravine.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Rozvalina
… On September 30, 1941, during Romanian rule [occupation], 21 completely innocent residents of the Rozvalina farmstead, whose bodies were found in a ravine on the Rozvalina farmstead…, were brutally tortured to death by Romanian gendarmes. The following was discovered by exhuming the bodies: the bodies of the murder victims were disfigured, the bones of the limbs were broken; finally, their death was caused by bullet wounds in the head.
The list of victims identified is attached below:
…3. Semyon Vayerberg, a resident of the city of Nikolayev
4. Nyuka [? probably Nyuma] Groyeman and [his] family, a total of 4 people, resident[s] of Bessarabia
5. Gersh Shmalevskiy and his family, a total of 3 people, [residents of Bessarabia]
6. Mekhel [apparently Mikhl] Eydelman and [his] family, a total of 2 people [residents of Bessarabia]....