Murder Story of Kirovograd Jews at the Krepostnye Valy in the Kirovograd Area

... On September 7, 1941 a German and a policeman came to our home and took my elder brother, who was born in 1924. My father was away from home. The following day [our] neighbor went to the police station and reported that there was one more kike living [in our home]. Then my father was taken as well. We did not see them anymore. My mother began looking for my father and my brother. She saw them in a yard on Marx Street and wanted to go there but a woman standing next warned her not to do so because she would risk not being able to return home....

... I remember very well the day when my father was taken. [They] came at night and took him, along with the man who was staying with his family in our apartment. They were Jewish refugees from Poland. They did not return. The raids took place at night …They were carried out by Germans and [local] policemen. They came to us also. They lined us up and began shouting that we should give them our valuables. The policemen gave us sacks to put things in. My father was beaten with whips. I was standing next to my mother and watching everything. The policemen searched the house but did not really find anything. That was the last time I saw my father. Later we learned that he had been shot, together with other Jewish men, in Krepostnyye Valy....