Murder Story of Novo-Arkhangelsk Jews at the Stalin Collective Farm in Novo-Arkhangelsk

After the county was liberated, three graves were uncovered near a height in the area of the fields of the Stalin kolkhoz in the Novo Arkhangelsk rural council area. 134 Soviet civilians had been shot there on February 25, 1942. An employee of the Stalin kolkhoz in Novo Arkhangelsk County testified: "At about 2 o'clock at night we heard people's screams and sub-machinegun fire. We realized immediately that people were being murdered. In the morning we learned that Germans, Hungarians, and local policemen had collected all the Jews in one building (which had previously served as a synagogue). The Jews were told to take their best possessions with them since they were supposedly going to be evacuated. None of them thought of escaping. At about 2 a.m. all of them were taken outside the village towards a height there and forced into a kolkhoz stable 200 meters above the area. After being forced to undress, the victims were taken from the stable in groups of 10-15 people and shot, with their bodies falling down from the height." There were teachers, members of the medical profession, Komsomol members, pupils, infants, and old people up to the age of 90 among the victims. The shooting lasted until 10 a.m. In March 1942 another 27 Jews were shot.