Murder Story of Klintsy Jews at the Former Nogin Factory

On December 6, 1941, early in the morning, his elder brother Misha (17 years old) ran outside and immediately returned shouting: "Hurry up!" Indeed the police pushed everyone toward the end of the village. No sooner had they [the Jews] managed to get dressed than the police rushed into the house with clubs. They forced everyone outside. Mikhail remembers that one of them beat his mother on the head. He did not see any Germans. About 11 o'clock in the morning the Jews who had been previously taken to the edge [of town] were forced into nearby barns. Mendel did not see Germans, only [local] policemen.… Mikhail heard machine gun fire outside of town, [near the cloth factory named after Nogin]. It was getting dark. The police did not allow him to come closer (apparently the location was surrounded). Later that day Mikhail learned what had happened: he heard people talking. Ditches had been dug behind the cloth factory. The Jews from the Bannyi area had been taken there. Then they were forced to undress and shot from machineguns. The trenches were still being guarded the following day.