On August 4 and 25, 1941 Ukrainian auxiliary policemen murdered a total of about 100 Jews from Kalnik on the territory of the collective farm Zhovten [October] close to the village. According to the report of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission, the victims were buried alive but, according to the testimony of one of the residents of Kalnik, a total of 35 Jews of Kalnik were shot to death and their bodies buried on the territory of the Zhovten Collective Farm.
Savelii Melnik, who was born in 1882 in Kalnik and lived there during the war years, testified:
…I know well that 35 Jews were shot in Kalnik village and buried near the collective farm. I cannot say who carried out the shooting or who was in charge of the shooting…
…1. On August 4, 1941 a pogrom of 80 innocent civilians who were buried alive, was carried out. This took place in the village of Kalnik, on the territory of the Kalnik collective farm Zhovten. The perpetrators of the crime were local [auxiliary] policemen and nationalists from the Western Ukraine. The local perpetrators were: the village elder Evsey Filimonovich Yevashchenko, his son the policeman Nikolai Evseevich Yevashchenko, [auxiliary] police commander Nikolai Khikhlovskiy, and the policemen Grigori Onufrievich Mogila, Andrei Stepanovich Mtyash, Konstantin Sergeevich Oskin, Gavriil Andreevich Ostapchuk, Sergei Kilievich, Stepan Zhivotovskiy, and Sergei Afanasyevich Bybyk.
2. On August 25, 1941 a pogrom of innocent civilians was once again staged on the territory of the Zhovten kolkhoz. The perpetrators [were] the same [as before], and they buried 20 persons alive…