Murder Story of Mikhalpol Jews at the Mikhalpol Jewish Cemetery

... We, the undersigned… compiled the following report: On this day we opened graves at the Jewish cemetery of Mikhalpol village [town], where we found the following: The first grave… the opening of this grave revealed two bodies – one of a woman and [the other of] a 4 year-old child. On the woman's body was a summer dress, her initial position was with her head down, below her body the body of the child was lying with his face down…. The medical examination that took place after the exhumation of the bodies indicated that in regard to the corpse of the woman the right side of her head had been struck with a blunt weapon, her teeth had been knocked out, and her arms had been pulled out of her shoulder sockets…. Medical examination found no bodily injuries on the boy's body, [indicating that] he had been buried alive. In its preliminary examination the commission established that in March 1944 in the village of Manikovtsy [near Mikhalpol] Nina Shvartsburg… and her son… who was born in 1939, were caught [in hiding] by the German Fascists and brutally tortured and then taken to the above-mentioned cemetery and buried. The second grave… the bodies of two men were exhumed. The commission established that in May 1943 a family of 4 [the bodies of whom] had been found lying in the grave had been shot to death by the German-Fascists. [The two bodies are those of] Leiba Semenovich Eizer, born in 1884, and Salomon Leibovich Eizer, born in 1919, who had lived [before war] in Mikhalpol, … the latter were betrayed [to the Germans] by the former [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen Nikolyuk and Korchinskyi. The third grave. During the excavation of the grave two bodies were found, one of them was the body of a woman. … in May 1943 the residents Semyon Veitser, born in 1914, and Klara Veitser [and their children], who had previously lived in Mikhalpol village, were brutally tortured by the German Fascists….

... We, the undersigned….compiled the following report: On this day we opened graves at the Jewish cemetery of Mikhalpol village [town], where we found the following: The first grave… with the opening of this grave 18 bodies of [Jewish] men were found … . Preliminary investigation by the commission indicated that in 1941, with the arrival of Germans in Mikhalpol, the German occupiers took the following Jewish [male] civilians [residents of the town] and shot them to death at the Jewish cemetery [of Mikhalpol]:….