After the summer campaign of the German army in 1942, some Jewish refugees from the west who had sought refuge in Donskaya Balka attempted to flee further eastward within the Soviet Union. The Wehrmacht intercepted them, shooting 17 Jews to death near the village of Burlatskoye.
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ChGK Soviet Reports
The ChGK report from Donskaya Balka
On July 30,1943… [t]he village council compiled this report about the deceitful invasion and pillaging behavior of the fascist occupiers, during the evacuation from the county of evacuees of five families including the following Jews 17:
1. Moisey Es. Bednitskiy
2. Dona Elav. Bednitskiy
3. Monya Mois. Bednitskiy
4. Nona Mois. Bednitsky
5. Yuriy Mois. Bednitsky
6. Raphoil Isr. Elimelakh
7. Sofia Elimelakh
8. Aleksandra Raph. Elimelakh
9. Mayor Vernik
10. Feya Vernik
11. Boris Stolyar
12. Bronya Stolyar
13. Anphasa Broyn
14. Chaya Broyn
15. Fanya Broyn
16. Raya Broyn
17. Baya Broyn,
who lived in the village of Donskaya Balka, in Gofitskoye County, [in the] Stavropol Kray District, duriing the period of the evacuation. They were caught by a German unit near the village of Burlatskoye, Sotnikovskoye County, [in the] Stavropol Kray District, and all of them - [members of] five families, who numbered 17 people, were brutally shot to death....