Murder Story of Kanovo Jews in Kurskaya

... The committee of the village of Kanovo – consisting of Representative Mikhail Mikhailovich Shcherbakov and the members [of the committee], Comrade Ivan Pavlovich Lisavkin; Konstantin Aleksandrovich Yakovlenko; Andrey Borisovich Zverev, and Fekla Ivanovna Zubkina – have compiled this report, which relates the accounts of the residents of the village of Kanovo about the execution, by the German monsters and their accomplices, of 20 people, including nine men, seven women, and four children. The perpetrators of these crimes are: the Cavalry Division, under the command of Resha; and the SS, under the command of Wolf Fritz, his batman Hans Kurz, and the driver Alfred Klein – as well as their accomplices, the butchers Andrey Matveyevich Walter, Joseph Ivanovich Minca, and others. They engaged in reprisals against Soviet citizens, forcing them to dig graves both for themselves [and] for their fellows, who would be shot afterwards, and then shooting them. These horrific and unheard of atrocities were committed in the last days of December 1942. Twelve [Jewish] people were executed in the vicinity of the village of Kurskaya; five people were executed in the area of the 3rd Corrective Labor Colony, and three people were executed in the area of the “Red Banner” collective farm.