Murder story of Grigoryevka Jews in the Askaniya Nova Area

… In March 1942 a policeman, whose name I do not know, from the county police arrived and demanded a cart to transport Jewish families. The cart was put at his disposal and the Jewish family of Mikhail Fridman, Mikhail himself, his wife, his sister, and his 4 children and, also, [membes of] another Jewish family, whose name is unknown an old woman and her granddaughter, for a total of 8 [sic, actually 9] people, were loaded onto the cart and, accompanied by policeman Smilenko, were taken to Chaplinka and from there to Askaniya Nova where, according to the cart driver, all of them were shot. First the children were shot, then their father and mother were forced to dig a grave for them and for themselves and then they [the parents] were shot. The property of these families was taken and divided among the policemen....