Murder Story of Bugskiy Sovkhoz Jews at the Novaya Odessa Airfield

…On March 5, 1942 at 8 a. m. the [policemen] I. M. Tkachenko and S I. Pavlenko arrived at [our] courtyard by cart. Armed, they entered the house and told Citizen A. N. Shmandura and his two children to get ready to travel to Novaya Odessa town. Only S. I. Pavlenko accompanied them there and, then, he handed them over them to the Gestapo. On March 6, 1942 they were taken outside the town of Novaya Odessa and shot in the presence of [his] wife, Citizen Anna Vasilyevna Shmandura. QUESTION: Tell us, Citizen A. V. Shmandura: "Who was an accomplice in the shooting?" ANSWER: According to incomplete data, a worker of the Bug grain-growing state farm, Citizen Yakov Bakhur, who has now gone to serve in the RKKA [Red Army] [is guilty] of denouncing the Citizen A. N. Shmandura as being Jewish. I believe this is so since Citizen Yakov Bakhur was basically a direct accomplice of the German occupiers….

…We determined that, in regard to the central Bug grain-growing state farm during its occupation by German occupiers, on March 6, 1942 Abram Naumovich Shmandura, who was not a Party member and who worked as trading manager at the county consumer cooperative society on the Bug grain growing state farm and who was of Jewish origin, was shot near the town of Novaya Odessa....

…On March 5, 1942 local policemen, in the persons of the police chief of the Bug grain-growing state farm citizen Ivan Markovich Tkachenko and his assistant Stepan Ivanovich Pavlenko, came to the house of Abram Naumovich Shmandura to take him away. He was taken to the town of Novaya Odessa and shot in the presence of some Germans whose names I do not know. QUESTION: Tell us, Citizen Vyzhul: "Who was the direct accomplice in the shooting?" ANSWER: I believe they [the accomplices] were the local policemen Tkachenko and S. I. Pavlenko, who denounced Citizen Shmandura as being Jewish, simply on the grounds that they approached the house where Citizen A. N. Shmandura was living, arrested him and his children, and took [all of them] to the town of Novaya Odessa to be shot….