Murder story of Tsybulev Jews in the Tsybulev Ravine

Approximately three hundred Jewish families lived in Tsybulevo…On one occasion they selected one hundred children and took them to a field. After a short time the policemen returned and announced to the mothers: “Go and pick up your pups. …” The mothers rushed screaming to the field. In the ravine they found the corpses of their children. In the spring of 1942 all the Jews were killed. The Germans took them just outside the village, stripped them, and shot them. The children were put in cages and hauled away on carts. They were buried alive… Nadya Rozanov told the following: “Dusya Kapitovsky was being taken to be executed with her baby. Dusya’s husband was an officer at the front, and the baby was eight months old. Dusya threw her son over the heads of the Germans to passers-by and shouted: ‘Dear people, save my son! At least let him live!’ “The baby fell on the road. A German walked up, picked the baby up by the leg, and smashed his head against the side of a car…” Lyusya Sapozhnikov was a nineteen year old student. When they undressed her before the execution, even the Germans were embarrassed at her beauty. But she shouted: “Shoot me, you murderers! But know that Stalin will come. …” She died with these words on her lips.