Murder Story of Kugulta Jews at the Grachevskaya Collective Farm

According to the witnesses Artyukhov and Anishchenko, who lived in the village of Kugulta and told us, that in November 1942, during the period of the German occupation, the fascist occupiers who were in Kugulta, the German officers Krechugart, Gabbe, Kalz, and Reders, and members of the 18/400 Police Battalion shot many peaceful Soviet civilians to death. They were taken to a pit at a collective farm in Grachevskaya, which was three kilometer from the village of Kugulta. After the liberation of the village by the Red Army, only 19 bodies could be identified. [List of the 28 murdered Jews from Kugulta]: 101. Sarah Kelman 102. Stephan (sic) Kelman 103. Fira Furman 104. Faina Zaidman 105. Yefim Zaidman 106. Polyana Zaidman 107. Valentina Zaidman 108. Maria Geiler 109. Galina S. Geiler 110. Sarah Geiler 111. Chaim Pebessky 112. Ira Pebesskaya 114. Isay L. Robinovich 115. Rosa Robinovich 116. Anna I. Grimber 117. Boris I. Grimber 118. Ada Grimber 119. Eva B. Shatero 120. Yakov M. Polyakov 121. Riva Z. Rodshtein 122. Mira Margulis 123. Mira Margulis (sic) 124. S. I. Brodskaya 125. Mira I. Brodskaya 126. Tsilya I. Yarovaya 127. Lev B. Yarovoy 128. Dmitry Yarovoy 129. Milya A. Fridman