Murder story of Dolinskaya Jews in the Garden of the Dolinskaya County Administration Chief

A group of 53 people was taken toward the building of the county authorities; most of them [the victims] were old people, women, or children. The group was brought to the garden near the mansion [sic] of Dymnich, the county head. In the mansion garden there was a large bomb crater. The doomed [people] were arranged separately by the crater edge - the men, the women, and the children. A five-year-old, Grisha, was unwilling to leave his mother Liza Filstein. An SS man kicked him in the forehead with his [boot] heel and threw him into the pit. When his mother bent over the pit, the SS man pushed her into the pit as well, while she was still alive. The policemen could not separate a lame 60-year-old man named David from his wife, an old woman. Both of them fell into the crater together, still embracing. First the fiends shot all the children to death in front of their parents' eyes, then the men, and afterwards the women also. Among the shooting victims were Sonya Kovalenko with her two children, an old couple the Spivaks, the tinsmith Yakov Cohen, a retired man named David and his wife Teplitskaya with their three children, a man named Kheyfets with three children, the butter-producing plant employee Isaak Filshtein with his wife and son, the nurse Roza Markovoza with her five-year-old son, and two Ukrainian Communists, Nosik and Drivay. The wounded [people] were pushed into the pit together with those already dead. With their guns the police forced local residents to cover the pit. The ground shuddered and heaved. Legs and arms stuck out from the earth and moaning could be heard…. This brutal massacre was carried out on the eve of November 7, 1941….

On October 7, 1941 at 4 p.m., in the center of Dolinskaya village, 68 people (66 Jews and 2 Ukrainians) were shot at that time. Those shot were old people, women, and infants. They were shot following the order of the German commandant Zendelbach. The Jews were arrested under the direction of district policeman Peter Brovko and county authority head Mikhael Dymnich. Dymnich expressed the desire that the shooting and the burial take place in the area of his garden. He stated [sarcastically]: "let there be here a Judeo-Bolshevik commune in my garden."