Murder Story of Kalinovka Jews at the Kalinovka Jewish Cemetery

…On June 30, 1942 a mass round up of the Jewish population was carried out in the area of the towns of Kalinovka and Novy and Stary Pikov. The policemen from among the local population, who had sold out to the German authorities and who included D. Boyko, N.V. Pushkar, D. Kravchenko, L. Kugay, Zakharevich, A. Bevzyuk, A. Strubchevskiy, V. Vechirko and the police chief N. Yarovoy, [and] L. Krasikov, [and] Gendarmerie translator Geyn [sic] and also German gendarmes whose names could not be determined took part in the round up. The round up, in which about 700 women, elderly people, and children were arrested, started at exactly 4 a.m. The gathering point was the stables of the Molotov kolkhoz, where they [the Jews] were held until 3 p.m., i.e. until the pits were ready. After that Lieutenant Lenger [sic] arrived at the stables [and] selected skilled workers, [such as] shoemakers, ironsmiths, tailors, etc., a total of 33 people, who were placed in a cell at the Gendarmerie [station]. Several Jews who tried to pass as Ukrainians were separated and locked up until their ethnic origins were clarified. On orders of Gendarmerie Chief Lobrin [sic] the rest, about 600 people, were taken under guard by local policemen Pushkar, Boyko, and others to the shooting site, where 8 Gestapo men who had arrived from Vinnitsa [and] whose names have not been ascertained, were waiting. Gebietskommissar Pakles [sic] also participated in the shooting. On his command Gestapo men started the brutal massacre, i.e. the shooting. Local policemen cordoned off the site for the shooting. Gestapo men ordered the people to strip naked. Afterwards, one of the Gestapo men took groups of 5 people down to the pit and forced them to lie face down, while two [other] Gestapo men shot [the victims] in the head with submachine-guns. Before the shooting people screamed, cried, and begged to be spared, but they were told that "your time is up." In this way all the arrested people, about 700 of them, were shot. [They included] 500 residents of the town of Kalinovka, including 12 Communists. The excavation of the mass grave carried out on August 12, 1944… showed [the following]: The grave is 1.5 kilometers from the town of Kalinovka in the direction of the Jewish cemetery and half a kilometer from the cemetery. The grave is 18.5 meters long and 3 meters wide. The central part of the grave was excavated…. The bodies of those in the top layer had their heads touching the backs of [the bodies] in the layer below.... The bodies were stiffened and preserved. The deaths were caused by bullets shot through the back of their heads….