Murder story of Pereyaslav Jews at the Pereyaslav Russian Orthodox Cemetery

On October 4th (the 6th according to Soviet reports; between the 6th and the 8th according to an inscription on the postwar monument; or on August 6th according to one of the testimonies), 1941 between about 500 (according to the perpetrators' report) and about 600 (according to Soviet reports) Pereyaslav Jews of all ages and both sexes were collected at the building of the former textile factory east of the town. After various humiliations, all the collected Jews were taken over the Alta River toward the Eastern Orthodox cemetery on the southern outskirts of the town and shot dead at the clay pits near the cemetery. The perpetrators of this massacre were members of a forward squad of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C, assisted by local Ukrainian auxiliary policemen. In the days, weeks, and months following this massacre a total of about 200 (according to Soviet reports) Jews who succeeded in escaping the October 1941 massacre by going into hiding, but who were ultimately discovered were taken to the cemetery and shot there, apparently by German rural and local auxiliary policemen. On May 14, 1943 about a dozen Jewish women married to non-Jews and one baptized, formerly Jewish, man named Semyon Khavad (or Khabad) were shot at the same place. It is unclear who were the perpetrators in this case.