Murder Story of Novo Aleksandrovskaya Jews at the Volodarsky Collective Farm

At 3 p.m. on a day at the end of September 1943, five Hitlerites, accompanied by an officer (whose name in unknown), arrived at the county hospital to search for Jews. The seriously ill ones, including some children, were thrown without mercy into a closed vehicle and taken to the Volodarsky collective farm. After half an hour, the vehicle returned to the hospital with the hospital underwear [that the victims had been wearing]. At the same time those Jews who had been working [at forced labor] were order to gather, supposedly for relocation to their [the Jewish] homeland. To deceive the Jews about the actual murderous intention, they were given [fake exit] permits. However, instead of being allowed to go to their homeland, the above-mentioned civilians, about 10 or 15 of them, were collected and taken to an area beyond the Volodarsky collective farm, approximately 2-3 kilometers from the village, where the German executioners shot the adults to death with machine-guns and killed the children by smearing their lips [with poison]. The vehicle drove right up to the pit. Then the Hitlerites opened the door and took 2 to 3 people and pushed them into the pit, in which they were shot to death. By 12 noon the first pit was full of bodies. Between noon and the end of the day the second pit was [also] filled. … In those two pits 541 people were buried, after being shot and brutally tortured. They were old people, women, and children, mainly Jewish civilians.