Murder Story of Khanskaya Jews in the Khanskaya Area

On August 13, 1942, shortly after the occupation of the village of Khanskaya in the Maykop County, the German-Fascist officers, accompanied by eight gendarmes, held a gathering in the village, during which the village headman was elected. After the gathering, the German collaborator, Vikentiy Zemskiy, who served as secretary of the Khanskaya rural administration office, arrested two Jewish families who had been evacuated from Ukraine, seven persons in total. They were: Ruvim Nusimovich Getman, aged thirty-five; his daughter Lyalya Ruvimovna Getman, aged eight; first name unknown, Kotik, aged sixty; her daughter Eva Kotik, aged thirty-eight; her granddaughter Golda Kogan, aged thirteen; a Jewish woman who lived with them, name unknown, and Mariya Osipovna Khodorovskaya, a teacher and activist from the village of Khanskaya, aged forty. On August 14, 1942, the abovementioned German officers, with the direct participation of the collaborator Podzemskiy, took all the arrestees to some bushes 4 kilometers from the village of Khanskaya. There, six of them were shot, while the eight-year-old girl, Lyalya Ruvimovna Getman, was poisoned with hydrocyanic acid. Prior to the shooting, the arrestees had been tortured… and severely beaten. The bodies of the shot and poisoned victims were buried in a trench.