Murder Story of Pokotilovo Jews in a Clay Pit near Pokotilovo

Also in Pokotilovo village 494 people [Jews] were shot in February 1942. A witness from this village, Mariya Bilomlynskaya, testified: "In the winter many policemen and 6-8 gendarmes arrived in our village, where immediately dinner was prepared for them and vodka was brought out. They had so many drinks and food that some of them were unable to function. Then the police rounded up the whole village and part of the police and gendarmes began to enter the houses and took with them children, women, and old people; they were undressed and sick. [The people] were not allowed to get dressed and were taken to a former old clay pit. All their possessions that remained in their homes were loaded onto carts the following day and taken to Podvysokoye.