Murder Story of Uspenskoye Jews at the Konokovo Brick Factory

... According to the German chief commander of Uspenskoye County Karl Well, the Germans arrested Jewish and non-Jewish civilians from the beginning of the German occupation on August 9, 1942. On August 25, 1942 Gestapo men arrested Jews and other Soviet civilians, a total of 46 people, and put them into the Gestapo prison… ….On August 29, 1942, at 4 o’clock in the morning, they were taken by(German) trucks and to a brick factory outside the village…. There they were forced to get out of the vehicles and move toward pits that had been prepared there. The adults were killed with machine-guns while the children, from age 6 to 10, were killed by putting poison on their lips. During the period between August 30 and September 3, 1942 about 85 Jewish and other Soviet civilians from around the county were arrested. On the latter-day, at midnight, September 3, 1942, the prisoners were taken by truck to the brick factory, where they were shot to death with machine-guns....