Murder Story of Balabanovka Jews in the Balabanovka School Garden

… I was an eyewitness and I know that in December 1942, after entering and surrounding our village, a German SD murder squad, collected 38 people, including elderly people, women, and children, from [their] apartments in the school building and after committing outrages against them and beating them, took them out in groups to the school garden and shot them basely by volleys of submachine guns. Those 38 people were members of the peaceful, totally innocent Jewish population. The fascist murderers threw the bodies of those shot into a half-destroyed cellar near the school; the bodies were subsequently lightly covered with earth….

… In December 1942 a German SD murder squad (whose members' names and size we do not know) that had arrived and surrounded our village collected from their apartments [and held] in the school building 38 people - elderly members, women, and children of the Jewish population - and after severely mistreating, robbing, and torturing them, took them in groups to the school garden and shot them with submachine-guns. Afterwards, the bodies of those murdered were thrown into a half-destroyed cellar near the school….