Murder Story of Voroshilovsk Jews at the Voroshilovsk Airfield

... On May 5, 1943 I returned to my home town of Stavropol, which had been liberated by the Red Army. The Germans killed my entire family: my elderly father, mother, my brother together with his wife and children,and my four sisters together with their children, among whom were nursing babies. When the Germans occupied Stavropol [Voroshilovsk], they established “The Jewish Committee to Protect the Interests of the Jewish Population.” The Jews were registered. A week later the Germans directed The Jews to come to the square at the train station, taking with them luggage weighing up to thirty kilograms. They were to be “resettled to areas with lower population density.” All those who came were put in vans of a special construction and gassed [sic]. Their belongings were taken to the Gestapo. Two days later, on August 14, 1942, the Germans directed that all local Jews come to receive armbands. Everyone - including my family - went. They were kept at the Gestapo offices until evening and then told that they would be allowed to return home in the morning. In the morning they were stripped naked, put in gassing vans, and taken outside of town. Officers and Gestapo men sifted through the Jewish apartments in search of booty....