Murder story of Soldato Aleksandrovskoye Jews in the Anti-Tank Trench at the Kuma Railroad Station

...The Germans shot to death 318 [sic] civilian residents of citizens Soldatsko-Aleksanderovskoye County. Two hundred seventy [sic] of them were shot in the village of Soldatsko – Aleksandrovskoye. A large majority of them were of Jewish nationality. With their arrival, the Germans began registering all the Jews who lived in Soldatsko - Aleksandrovskoye County. Then they ordered them to gather at the German headquarter in the village. In the month of September, the traitor to our homeland chief of police Timofei Samarin summoned the selected victims, at the order of the Gestapo, to gather as the German headquarters, which was at Stalin Street No. 28, under the pretext of their [the Jews'] evacuation to a place where they would work. They were ordered to take their belongings and important valuables, but not more than 32 kilograms per person. The civilians arrived at the yard of the headquarters, where they were all ordered to hand over their possessions. The people were made to stay outside [the headquarters. Then some trucks arrived and they were filled with those people, who and were taken to an anti-tank trench outside the village, near the Kuma railroad station. The children were poisoned with a special cream, that was applied to their lips in the sight of their parents. The children wept and cried to their parents for help. Then they [the children]began to suffer rigor mortis and died in front of the eyes of their mothers and fathers. [After they] finished with the children, the coldblooded ones [as they certainly were], lined up the women, men, and the elderly and shot them to death. Then they threw them down into the trench on top of the bodies of the children, some of whom were still alive and crying. They [some adult victims] screamed and cried as they embrace the bodies of their children. They groaned but did not ask for mercy. One heard only the cursing of the German butchers….